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THE LESBIAN AND GAY NEWS MAGAZINE NO. 68 
















Welcome Remarks by Deborah G/ick 


Keynote Address by Congressman Gerry Studds 


- Honorees - 

Irving Cooperberg Craig Davidson Tom Waddell 

Honorary President Executive Director Founder 

The Center GLAAD Gay Games 

Dinner Tickets: $250 per person 

For more information call Mary Nealon at 212 391-4660 

HRCF is the nation's largest political organization committed 
to securing full civil rights for gay men and lesbians and 
enactment of responsible federal policies for fighting AIDS. 





NEWS 

Nws.12 

Out Takes.22 

AIDS This Week.24 

HEALTH 

Political Science.28 

DEPARTMENTS 

Outspoken.4 

Letters.5 

Stonewall Riots..5 

Sotomayor..6 

Blurt Out.8 

Jennifer Camper.10 

Liberation Logic.30 

Milestones.32 

Look Out.45 

Out of My Hands.46 

Gossip Watch..47 

Going Out Calendar..61 

Tuning In.64 

Dancing Out.65 

Community Directory.66 

Bar Guide.68 

Classifieds.70 

Crossword. XL 


ARTS 

VIDEO: Lookout Festival 

Martha Gever makes heads and 


tales of TO tapes . 50 

VIDEO: Richard Fung 

Karl Soehnlein interviews the 
video-maker. . 52 

BOOKS: David Leavitt 


The author meets Maria Maggenti 
for coffee and conversation.... 5 4 

BOOKS: A Place I've Never 
Been Christopher Davis on the 


new collection . 57 

POETRY: Leave or Die 

Assotto Saint. . 58 


FEATURES 

Reign of Terror 

Nina Rejms on the gay-bashing epi¬ 
demic, City Hall's response and 
queer talk of guns . 34 

Three anonymous queers drive 
home some points about self¬ 
arming . 38 

Mourning Becomes Diamanda 

Robert Htiferty taBes wth Diamanda 
Galas as she brings her 
St.John the Divine . 

Cem pMa ky Micfcaal wakafl 

art* ptomrapM fry Tam 

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Fifthteen Minutes Per Week 

Dear Mayor Dinkins. 

When a majonty of lesbians and gay men voted for you last 
year, we sent politicians in New York a dual message: that as 
voters and citizens, we wont be taken for granted, and that we 
have the voting strength to make a difference at election time. 

And make a difference we did. Pollsters and pundits often 
credit gays with deciding the contest in your favor But unfortu¬ 
nately, Mr. Mayor, since the election, your record on gay issues 
has been nonexistent. 

Despite your dtoppoantr^ start, we sd believe that you could 
make a pcwove difference. Accordingly, we have a modest proposal. 

Mr. Mayor, wc ask that you spend 15 minutes on the phone 
each week, every week, advocating for gays and lesbians. That's 
it—15 minutes per week. Imagine what you could accomplish. 

When The New York Times writes an article about, say. the 
Wigstock Festival but fails to mention that Wigstodt is a gay 
event, you oould phone Editor Max Prankefs office: 

"He*o, Max, this is the mayor. Why in hell did your people 
write that damn Wigstock artide and leave out the gays? I’ve got 
these people breathing down my neck. Max. They're a great pan 
of my georgeous mosaic, and they keep telling me how the 71mes 
ignores them. It isn’t fair, Max, and Fm taking a personal interest 
in k." (Time elapsed: three minutes at most. Probable result sig¬ 
nificantly increased 7tmes coverage of gay issues and events.) 

After hanging up, you might dial William Baker, president of 
Channel 1VWNET, where gays and lesbians have been lobbying 
unsuccessfully for their own weekly TV show. 

*Hdk>, Bill, this is the mayor. I keep hearing from my numer¬ 
ous gay supporters that Channel 13 is refusing to produce a 
weekly talk show for gays. You know, that isn't a lot to ask, BiB. I 
remember when African Americans had no representation in the 
media, and it was a bad situation. A weekly talk show isn't a lot 
to ask from a viewer-supported TV station that’s licensed to serve 
the public interest. 11 he watching this situation carefully, BiB Tm 
sure there’s something you can do." (Tune elapsed three and a 
half minutes. Probable result: a lesbian and gay show on 13 ) 

Having ardy spent six and a half minutes of your allotted 15, 
you’d stil have eight and half minutes to call a sports stadium 
that's dragging its feet on the Gay Games, a local insurance com¬ 
pany that's disenminating against people with AIDS, the chair of 
American Express (which recently excluded gays from your bfue- 
rifcbcn ‘unity' campaign) and the police commissioner to let him 
know how concerned you arc about anti-gay assaults. 

In just one morning, between cups of coffee, you could 
move mountains. Using the power of your bully-pulpit week after 

could assure yourself of our grateful support at those difficult 
times when you need it most. 

If this sounds like absurdly tale for us to ask, we're sure that 
there arc other substantive things you could do as well. This is 
Just a first step. 

Please let us know when you plan to begin scheduling these 
weekly 15 minutes of advocacy. 

And if not, why not 






[(TIERS 


HYPERTHERMO- 

NUCLEAR 

Your recent coverage on 
the hyperthermia treatment is 
way out of line. You'll forgive 
me if I'm not perfectly polite in 
this letter (as you would 
expect from an administrator), 
but I'm fired up. So my ques¬ 
tion is. Who the fuck do you 
think you are?l 

This rag is an outrageous 
propaganda tabloid that only 
wants to perpetuate individual 
agendas. Short of boldfaced 
lies. Nina Reyes and Gabriel 
RoMk> have been trying to take 
away the right of PWAs to have 
full investigations of the treat¬ 
ments for their conditions. The 
articles you printed in this rag 
are chastising Alonso and using 
this individual's opportunistic 
ways as justification for taking 
away another treatment for peo¬ 
ple with AIDS. Does Nina Reyes 
have AIDS? Does anybody real¬ 
ly give a damn about our oorxf- 
tkxi physically or socially? Only 
so far as It can make a buck or 
get them a byfine. it seems. 

Your raport from Nina 
Reyes [*PWA Dies After 
Undergoing Blood-Heating 
'Cure,'* no. 60. Aug. 22] 
excluded comments from the 
only two New York doctors 
who went to Atlanta. Drs. Joe 
Sonnabend and Suzanne 
Phillips. Instead, you quote a 
lawyer from GMHC. Excuse 
me. dear, but that shit won't 
fly. Get Nina out of there, get 
off the case of the Investiga¬ 
tion. and stop taking away 
from PWAs one more feasible 
line of hope. 

As a person with AIDS 
and KS, I stand with Mike 
Calen and a lot of other PWAs 
who demand that all treat¬ 
ments for AIDS be investigated 
thoroughly, swiftly and to the 


benefit of people with AIDS. 
We don't care about Aisonso, 
Reyes. Rotello or OutWeek 
readers who need to believe 
that this crisis is going to con¬ 
tinue until everybody’s person¬ 
al agendas are met My life is 
at stake in these games you're 
playing, and nobody asked me. 
Don't use PWAs as a stepping- 
stone in your pathetic careers. 

Mike Callen retired, and 
iVKke Hired) died—but not their 


piss and vinegar spirits against 
assholes like yourselves. 

Bret Scott-Hartiand 
Development Coordinator 
People with AIDS of 
Hew Jersey, Inc. 
Fort Lee, NJ 

Actually, Dr. Suzanne Phillips is 
quoted throughout the ertcle. 
Dr. Joseph Sonnabend could 


not be reached for comment 
prior to deadline, and no one 
from GUHC is quoted at all. 

The article drew no con¬ 
clusions about the efficacy of 
hyperthermia and began with a 
quote from Dr. Bernard Bihari. 
who said that he believed that 
the study of the treatment 
should continue, despite the 
fact that his patient died. 

Instead of using Ms. 
Reyes and the rest of us as 


steppingstones for your own 
misplaced anger, how about 
dashing off a poison-pen note 
to the tabloids in New York 
City and elsewhere that never 
bothered covering the story 
at all7 If it were careers, 
bucks and bylines we were all 
after, we'd be at Vanity Fair, 
rxrtOutWeek. Dear. 

-Mews Ed. 


RIOHT-WINO WAR 

Three cheers for Nina 
Reyes’ superb export. ’Smoth¬ 
ering Smut* 

Two important points 
went unmade, however. 

First, unless I missed 
something, Ms. Reyes says 
nothing about the draconian 
new ’anti-porno* law that 
Helms, Thurmond etal. snuck 
through the Congress in 
1988. It puts everyone who 
photographs the male or 
fsmale nude at risk. It is 
unconstitutional in a number 
of ways, not ths least of 
which is its forfeiture and 
destruction provisions. 

It also requires a photog¬ 
rapher to list on the product the 
location of ths model releases 
and proofs of age. (Hidden 
right-wing message: In viola¬ 
tion of the 4th and 5th Amend¬ 
ments, which we think are 
garbage anyway, you must tefl 
us where to find you, so ws can 
corns and destroy your work.) 

Worst of all. for every 
depiction of an ’obscene* 
photograph made after early 
1978, the photographer must 
have on file two proofs of age. 
one of which must be sn offi¬ 
cial photo ID. (Hidden right- 
wing message: These pervert 
photographers won’t ever be 
able to track down the dope 
addicts, whores and other 
useless scum that they made 
dirty pictures of 12 years ago.) 

Ths definition of obscen¬ 
ity is so broad that even the 
Michelangelo ’David* and 
the ’Venus do Milo’ are 
’obscene’ by its standards. 
(Hidden right-wing message: 
The human body and any 
sexual act associated with It 
other than the missionary 
position with all the lights out 
are shameful and disgusting. 





and no ona should be 
allowed to contemplate or 
depict them.) 

Most of this hideous law 
was overturned by a Federal 
District judge In Washington. 
DC. but Thornburgh, of course, 
has appealed to the Circuit 
Court of Appeals. If Judge 
Revercomb's ruling that this 
hateful law is unconstitutional 
ultimately is upheld by the US 
Supreme Court the sponsors 
of this homophobic and sex- 
phohic atrocrty have vowed to 
reintroduce it. minus the 
retroactivity provision. One of 
the eager supporters of this 
bill, of course, was our 
beloved Al D'Amato. the same 
‘connoisseur* who publicly 
destroyed a copy of the catalog 
of the Mapplethorpe exhibition 
on the floor of the US Senate. 

The Miller decision criteria 
require the material to be 
‘utterly without redeeming 
social value.' With the threat erf 


AIDS hanging over every citizen 
orf the United States of America, 
our politicians, clerics and 
physicians should all be active¬ 
ly encouraging the private, con¬ 
sensual autoerotic use of 
graphic erotica, made by adults 
♦or other adults. After all. you 
cant catch AIDS from a Colt 
photograph or a Falcon video. 

Jerking off to pom is the 
only truly safe sexual outlet 
left for millions of Americans, 
and these compassionleas. 
self-appointed guardians of 
our morals want to deny us 
even that. 

Every one of us needs to 
send the self-righteous moral¬ 
istic prigs in seats of power the 
same blunt message: Spend 
our hard-earned taxpayer dol¬ 
lars to stamp out AIDS, not 
*amuf I 

Stop the right-wing war 
against the right to be different! 

George P PiUson 
Manhattan 


GANTT IS BETTER 

The letter (‘Letters.* no. 
64. Sept 19) objecting to my 
advertisement in OutWeek 
which criticized Harvey Gantt 
only reinforces the need for 
open confrontation of queer 
issues by a candidate running 
for public office. The letter 
writer states that treating 
‘gay* issues on a low-key 
basis now is all right with him. 

This is obvious from his 
actions. He helped form NC 
Senate Vote ‘90 and then 
moved to pricey Greenwich Vil¬ 
lage—quite a move from Jesse 
Helms’ emal town here in NC. 

NC Senate Vote '90 has 
indeed raised over $50,000, 
according to their latest 
reports, but not one penny has 
been given to Harvey Gantt or 
the Harvey Gantt campaign. 

As a result of my Out- 
Week advertisement, I have 
been invited to meet with Har¬ 
vey Gantt and his wife on Oct 


13 to discuss what he is going 
to do for us queers. 

It Is a matter of attitude 
whether you see yourself as 
oav or oueer. 

The letter writer seems to 
come from a gay conscious¬ 
ness. Gay is a conservative, 
appropriate, yuppie, mellow, 
passive and co-dependent-on- 
a-heterosexlst-society word. It 
means living in a fucking New- 
Age Light Bubble, not facing 
the reality of people with AIDS 
dying by the minute, queer¬ 
bashing or all the other indig¬ 
nities put on us by a homo- 
phobic society. 

It takes a strong woman 
or man with real character to 
proclaim themselves to be 
queer. It is a word with a real 
edge, one that society under¬ 
stands. and wa as powerful 
people can reclaim a word 
which originally meant differ¬ 
ent from the usual. THANK 
GOO FOR OUR DIFFERENCE. 




The Nil of Right* allow* 
u* to ba different, and we 
mu*t constantly reinstate 
thoee precious articles. 

The queers of the world 
need a leader, a Marlin Luther 
Queen. I apologize for the ad 
and realize that Harvey Gantt 
is better than Helms. Harvey is 
sweet, but he is not our 
QUEER leader. I shouldn't 
expect much from a Or. 
Huxtable. Certainly not a cure 
for AIDS, but maybe a Missoni 
sweater or two. 

Charles Merrill 
Address Withheld 

BASIST, FLEXIST, 
ANTI-FEY 

In response to Christo¬ 
pher Allen's gratuitous letter 
[•Letter*.' no. 62. Sept. 15] 
asserting that It is 'whites 
who steal from Blacks.* Mr. 
Allen chooses to ignore the 
disproportionate amount of 
gay-bashing from Blacks, not 
to mention how easy It is to 
lump the turnstile at 125th to 
shoot down to the West Vil¬ 
lage. Many of us so-called 
racist gay whites feel it Is 
time for Blacks to 'direct* 
some of that energy toward 
policing homophobia within 
their own community rather 
than aiming that energy 
against their white brothers. 
If Mr. Allen is so dissatisfied 
with OutWeek, he should 
realize nothing Is stopping 
Blacks from creating a gay 
magazine of their own. 

I am also disgusted by 
Tracy Morgan’s letter ['Let¬ 
ters.* no. 60. Aug. 22] of 
Ignorance, crying over how 
gay men are to have this 
enormous responsibility to 
lee Mans' health concerns and 
their so-called Invisibility 
problem. The time has come 
for these uneducated lesbians 
to leam the facts. According 
to the AIDS hotline for statis¬ 
tics (1-404-303-3021) there 
have been a total of 140.822 
reported case* of AIDS as of 
July 31. 1990. Out of this 


total number, 127,427 are 
men. and of those. 64.241 
are gay. The total number of 
women infected is 13.395. 
And while transmission 
between two women through 
sexual contact remains ques¬ 
tionable. gay men are 
defamed as sexist for their 
concern over their own health 
iseues. It truly amazes me 
how so many lesbians appear 
to be jealous of how AIDS 


has given gay men this 
'glamorous* publicity. The 
main reason gay men have 
publicity at all is because so 
much more negative [sic] is 
produced about us in the first 
place. I, as [sic] many, am 
not impressed by movies 
such as Longtime Companion 
and An Early Frost labeling 
gay men as disease carrying, 
or Torch Song Trilogy with 
Harvey Flerstein as a drag 


queen, not to mention La 
Cage aux Folles' degrading 
and humiliating depiction of 
gay lifestyle. Would such a 
parody have been tolerated 
about lesbians? Victoria A. 
Brownstone ['Letters,* no. 64 
Sept. 19] is another hysterical 
lesbian full of hate against 
men, particularly gay men 
(unless of course they remain 
'stereotypically* sub¬ 
servient). She completely 




misses ths point Campion 
Reed ['Letters,' no. 62, Sept. 
5] was trying to make and 
apparently feels it is accept¬ 
able for only women to use 
vulgar profanity against men. 
I must agree with Mr. 
Berglund [-Letter*.* no. 62. 
Sept. 5] that anti-male 
rhetoric has not escaped the 
attention of many gay men. I 
must also mention it is not 
gay men who 'need" lesbians. 

I believe the staff of Out- 
Week deserves outstanding 
credit lor dedkating so much 
time and effort to women's 
Issues—even if the women 
don't show appreciation. 

James Gonsalves 
Brooklyn 

EQUAL 

PARTICIPATION 

I was very pleased by Liz 
Tracy's excellent article on the 
Harvey Milk High School. One 
statement however, needs clar¬ 
ification, the sentence in which 
It is said that Stave Ashldnazy 
and Joyce Hunter were the co- 
founders of the school. 

There were many people 
involved in setting up the Har¬ 
vey Milk High School program 
including, but not limited to. 
Wayne Stainmnan, David Bai¬ 
ley and myself at the Institute: 
Lee Hudson and the late Peter 
Vogel when we were having 
problems finding space Ind 
dealing with various govern¬ 
ment agencies and very 
importantly, Steve Philips and 
Marsha Shelton of the board 
of education; and our first 
teacher, Fred GokJhaber. 

It is important to remem¬ 
ber that the school is not a 
separate institution but a pro¬ 
gram of the Hetrick-Martin 
Institute, much like our street 
outreach to homeless youth 
and juvenile prostitutes, our 
drop-in center, our profes¬ 
sional education program 
which includes speaking to 
young people in the schools, 
our advocacy programs and 
al the other programs which 


we have set up to serve our 
youth. These programs do not 
have ’co-founders." Rather, 
they represent joint efforts by 
all personnel in the agency 
and often, as in the case of 
the Harvey Milk High School, 
by community and city agen¬ 
cies cooperating, in this 
instance by providing the 
educational services that are 
the right of our young peo¬ 
ple. There is a long history of 
the development of alterna¬ 
tive high school programs 
through such cooperation. 

It is important to give 
credit to individuals who help 
develop such vital services in 
the community. But we must 
be careful that in so doing, we 
do not deny and hide the 
equal participation of others. 

A. Damien Martin, Ed.D. 

Board Member and for¬ 
mer executive director. 
The Hetrick-Martin 
Institute. Inc. 

JEWELLE’S JEWEL 

I commend you for your 
excellent coverage of the NY 
Lesbian and Gay Experimental 
Film Festival (no. 64. Sept 19J. 

I liked Jewelle Gomez’s 
comment that gay men will be 
powerless until we no longer 
fear intimacy. But I wonder 
when that will be. And I won¬ 
der if straight men don’t fear 
It—many people do. 

We have lost our innate 
sense of fellowship and natural 
tendency to help each other. 

Alvin Farin 
Address Withheld 

BLURRINQ THE LINE 

Regarding your editorial. 
'Click and the Times.’ in issue 
no. 65 [Sept 26). you correct¬ 
ly mentioned that Deborah J. 
Glick’s victory in the Sept. 12 
Democratic primary was 
largely ignored by The New 
York Times. 

You go on in the editorial 
to say, ’People look to the 
newspaper of record to pro¬ 
vide perspective on current 


events, a p - spective that 
forms the instant historical 
account of our era...[f]or les¬ 
bians and gays, its failure is 
institutional and chronic.’ 

Perhaps, since you are so 
interested in historical per¬ 
spective. it would have been 
appropriate to mention in your 
editorial that Ms. Glick was 
endorsed by the Times. Per¬ 
haps you also should have 
mentioned that the Times 
largely ignored the results of 
all the Assembly races, not 
just Ms. Glick’s race in the 
65th District 

While I, too. was disap¬ 
pointed in the Times primary 
coverage on Sept 12. I can’t 
agree that the Times did us 
'inestimable harm.* Consider¬ 
ing the endorsement and the 
fact that Ms. Glick’s own cam¬ 
paign materials trumpeted it 
proudly. I’d say that all in ail. 
they helped us on this one. 

I understand that for Out- 
Week, being angry and radkai 
is important But for many of 
us in the gay community, 
being factual is just as impor¬ 
tant By blurring the lines, you 
put your integrity at risk. 

John Gilliam 
Manhattan 

TODAY I READ THE 


BLURT 

OUT 


FRONT PORCH, 
BACK PORCH. 
LOCKER ROokl, 
CLOSET... 


When Boston Herald 
•ports reporter Use Olson wee 
washed over by the raw sewage 
of sexism end pig-heedsdness 
In the New England Patriots 
tocher room tost weak, one 
could Meralfy watch the hands 
of tkne whir beck to the earty 
Bronaa Age. But having 
eoltocted the besot our 
shattered crento, tot us now 
examine what torttts earth this 
Wtto imbrogao has tided up. A 
number of gentlemen from the 


they are. tn The Mew York 
rimes, Rusaefl Baker seemed to 
•pm wttdty In • soft locus 
reverie: 'Schoolboys first 


MARRY 

The last time I wrote a 
letter to a magazine was in the 
late 70s. when I wrote a note 
to Tiger Beat magazine asking 
(under an assumed name, of 
course), no doubt intimate 
questions about my fave hunk 
(at the time), Patrick Man 
From Atlantis Duffy. I was no 
more than 13 at the time. I 


when they learn the )oy of 
•Peking each other on bare 
buttocks with wot towels. The 
activity in tocher rooms of 
professional athtotas cm* ba 
more Intontlto, according to 
traitors who have spa tod the 
beans In print." And In the Osey 
tows, Richard 0. Carter penned 
this oonfeselonal: '{The locker 
room] to where many players 


ably since then. 

All I want to say with this 


rooms and routinely wait 
•round naked. And It's also 


rile. I’ve been an OutWeek 
reader for nearly a year now, 
and I can always count on Ns 
column being interesting, even 
if sometimes the rest of the 


admittedly crude, boye-wtB-be- 
boys variety." And you thought 
this only happened In British 
boarding echooto. 

—8w»h Penn 



magazine rant 

As a member of ACT UP 1 
Milwaukee and a PWA (not to 
mention a basically pretty 
pissed-off queer). I can’t 
imagine not taking Michelan¬ 
gelo's side on virtually every 
issue that he has tackled, 
from the Chastity lunacy to 
the shitty way he was treated 
at the Queer Nation demo in 
the Village. I have a bit of a 
logistics problem with outing, 
though nobody that Mike has 
outed deserves anything but 
what they got. 

Not only do I respect the 
man fully, but judging from 
the few photos I've seen of 
him, I think he's fucking 
adorable. When I rave to my 
friends about this or that 
‘Gossip Watch* column, I 
always refer to Mike as the 
man I will one day marry* 
(along with Michael Feinstein 
and Keanu Reeves). 

Keep up the good work. 
Michelangelo, and don't let the 
shitheads get to you. You’ve 
definitely got some fans here 
in the Midwest. 

Timothy J. Nowak 
Milwaukee. Wts 

JERKING CLASS 

DISTINCTIONS 

I usually admire the 
angry spirit if not always the 
political conclusions, of 
Michelangelo Signorile's 
acid-tip-tongued ‘Gossip 
Watch* column. However. I 
have to take exception to last 
week's column's comment 
that Pete Hamill. Jimmy 
Breslin and Andy Rooney 
represent “working-class val¬ 
ues* (‘Gossip Watch,' no. 
56. July 25). These racist, 
misogynist, homophobic 
windbags have never worked 
a day in their lives. The Kfe of 
the factory floor and its 
grinding oppression is as 
dose to their life experience 
as straight sex is to ours. 
What do they know about 
working-class values? 

Stgnoriie contends that by 


replacing these reactionary 
peddlers of journalistic racism 
and homophobia, their bosses 
are moving in a more enlight¬ 
ened progressive direction. 
This is false. Perhaps Hamill 
and Breslin will get the boot 
onto the pavement But it's not 
the Potts nor the Daily News' 
owners' noble sentiment that is 
responsible for these changes 
Nor did the ‘sophisticated* 
Teny McOonell at Esquut wake 


up one morning and say. ‘Suit, 
this homophobe Hamill has got 
to go. Hell just so uncool' Get 
over your illusions, Michelan¬ 
gelo! It's our queer nation act¬ 
ing up and demanding they 
stop the gay-bashing drivel 
that passes for acceptable edi¬ 
torial comment on the pages of 
these media rags that is mak¬ 
ing the changes. 

Furthermore, it’s not 
working-class values that 


murdered Yusef Hawkins or 
James Zappalorti or beats up 
and maims people of color, 
women and lesbians and 
gays; it's the racist, sexist, 
homophobic and yes. dassist. 
ideology of the ruling dass of 
this country that spreads this 
poison. When Breslin calls a 
young woman Asian reporter 
*a yellow cur* or Hamill beck¬ 
ons backward to his primeval 
gorilla roots as a young gay- 


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basher while watching us 
march by strong, queer and 
united in anger—these writ¬ 
ers are shedding their ‘liber¬ 
al* veneer, they are echoing 
the reactionary sentiments of 
the ruling class who hates 
us. They try to publicize 
through the pages of their 
columns the attitude that it's 
now OK to bash the under¬ 
class. to even kill us. Ths 
recent upsurge in gay-bash¬ 
ings and the ten-year crimi¬ 
nal government record on 
the AIDS crisis is their final 
solution for the lesbian and 
gay problem 

Such sentiments have 
nothing to do with working- 
class values. Real working- 
class values have always 
stood on the politically cor¬ 
rect side of justice and the 
fight against oppression. The 
working class. Black and 
white, gay and straight, has 
been victimized and beaten 


up like the coal miners In 
Kentucky and Mark Curtis, 
the young meat-packing 
worker in Iowa, and the gay 
and lesbian brothers and sis¬ 
ters now languishing in a 
faderal prison in Washing¬ 
ton. DC. Eastern Airlines and 
Greyhound workers and the 
Dorsey (mostly Haitian gar¬ 
ment workers here in NY) 
have all been attacked by the 
cops. They have experienced 
the same kind of violence by 
the state and lies about their 
struggles by the media 
(which it controls) that we 
have. Let’s not mistake real 
*working- class* values and 
allies for the phony preten¬ 
sions of the bigot journalists 
and big business media who 
uses them. 

How do I know these 
things. Michelangelo? Trust 
my working-class instincts! 

George Kontanis 
Address Withheld 


Michelangelo Slgeorlle 
responds: George, as one 
person who grew up with 
‘working-class values' to 
another. I don't think that I 
have to tell you that one 
need not engage in hard 
labor to possess such val¬ 
ues. I don't mean to protect 
those asinine columnists, 
but I think it unfair to dis¬ 
miss their working-class 
sentiments as bogus simply 
by saying that they've never 
worked a day in their lives 
(which, tor all I know, may 
not even be true). They all 
certainly grew up In work¬ 
ing-class families. 

As for who is responsi¬ 
ble for change. I totally agree 
with you that it is the gay 
community Itself—In fact, 
some people would say that 
my constant reiterating of 
that fact in my column is 
rather self-indulgent. So how 
is It, then, that you claim I 


don't recognue It? 

Finally, though many in 
the working class are. as 
you say, mimicking ’the 
racist, sexist, homophobic 
and. yes, classist ideology 
of the ruling class, ’ that 
doesn 't free them of guilt. I 
don't buy your excusing the 
working class, and telling 
me that it stands for the 
politically correct side of 
justice.’ Bullshltl Racism, 
sexism and homophobia 
were rampant In my 
upbringing on Staten 
Island. I got over it—cor¬ 
rection, I'm getting over it, 
for I don't think one easily 
rids oneself of those poi¬ 
sonous diseases, which— 
though they Infect Palm 
Beach, Beverly Hills and the 
White House—are at epi¬ 
demic proportions in Ben¬ 
son hurst. Howard Beach 
and lots of other working- 
class neighborhoods. 


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SOME OF THE 
PEOPLE, SOME OF 
THE TIME 

Monica Dorenkamp's 
assertion [no. 60. Aug. 22] 
that Spire Lee's latest movie 
is not really about jazz is well 
taken. Her assertion that as 
one of the few auteur direc¬ 
tors in this country. Lee has 
come of age is also wall 
taken. I would Bke to add that 
the fact that he is a Black 
male makes his presence in 
the movie industry even more 
exciting and open to closer 
scrutiny. But her implication 
that Lee has made an attempt 
at becoming mainstream and 
thus ‘sold out* is illogical. 
Sold out to whom? 

Lee's movies are hardly 
racist but they are still by. for 
and about Blacks in America. 
The only reason Spike Lee 
has become more main¬ 
stream. as Dorenkamp says, 
is because trendy, white, yup¬ 
pie and guppie so-caled pro¬ 
gressives think themselves 
on the cutting edge by going 
to see hie movies. But please 
continue to go. 

There may very well be 
pressure on Lee to make 
films which please everyone. 
Besides the fact that this is 
impossible. I really don’t 
think that Lee gives a shit 
whom his films please or dis¬ 
please. Say what you wi, Lee 
has not yet compromised his 
artistic integrity. 

ft Moody 
Miami, Fla. 

ACCURACY ON 
CABLE 

Gabriel Rotello made a 
mistake in his article [no. 66. 
Oct 3] on the mess over at 
Manhattan and Paragon 
Cable. He cited that the inde¬ 
cency provision of the new 
rules ‘threatened to wipe out 
gay shows entirely.' 

The fact is that Out in 
the ’90s, The Stephen Holt 
Show. The Brenda and Glen¬ 
da Show and Rick X's Closet- 


Case Show al are shown on 
channels not affected. 

Don't get me wrong, the 
demise of Channel J/23 is a 
terrible injury to the free 
speech accessibility of the 
lesbian and gay community. 
However, the overstatement 
in OutWaek is not helpful to 

While public access is 
safe, as of now. on cable and 
on WBA1 (FM) 99.5 for les¬ 
bian and gay producers, the 
battle to get visibility on 
commercial and pubic televi¬ 
sion is just beginning. Let's 
be accurate in our assault. 

Larry Gutenburg 
The Gay Show 
WBAI (FM) 99.5 

Gabriel Rotello responds: 

You're quite right. The sen¬ 
tence should have read. 
‘ threatened to wipe out gey 
shows entirely on Channel J.‘ 

DAY APPEAL 

Since the last sentence 
of my article about the three 
women who pleaded guilty to 
conspiracy charges in a 
series of government protest 
bombings [no. 66, Oct. 3| 
wasn’t printed, could you 
please publish this letter? 

This letter goes on to say 
that anyone who wants to 
sign a pre-sentendng petition 
in support of Laura White- 
hom, Linda Evans and Mari¬ 
lyn Buck: to learn more about 
their resistance conspiracy 
case: or to support the cam¬ 
paign for Alan Berkman’s 
parole, can write to: the Emer¬ 
gency Committee lor Political 
Prisoners. PO Box 28191, 
Washington, DC 20038: or 
call (202) 328-7818. 

Susie Day 
Manhattan 

SWEAR TO GOD, WE 
DIDN'T WRITE THIS 

OURSELVES 

As a recent subscriber 
and newly out gay person. I 
just wanted to let everyone 


know that I am proud of our 
magazine. Although I do not 
subscribe to all the opinions 
expressed In the magazine 
completely. OutWaek is still 
the first lesbian and gay 
newsweeldy to completely rep¬ 
resent ad at us. as wel as set 
the stage for a (toy Mien we al 
can be proud and unafraid to 
be different. With articles rang¬ 
ing from the subjects of les¬ 
bian weightiifters to hating 
straights. OutWeek has pro- 
fotsxfy influenced our society 
to no longer stay in the back¬ 
ground When I tel a straight 
friend I’m gey. I now dso give 
him/her a copy of OutWeek 
This is what I’m all about’ 
Keep up the good work. 

Before I dose my letter. 
I’d like to ask the enlarge¬ 
ment of the Bar 6uide and 
Dancing Out department. 
There are a lot of bars and 
dubs that are in Central Jer¬ 
sey that need the support of 
our community and are not 
Nsted. Let's give the South¬ 
ern suburbanite the opportu¬ 
nity to have fun and be 
informed too. 

Manuel Esteves 

Eatontown. HJ 

THE POLITICS OF 
GLANCING 

Jay Blotcher’s article 
"Conceiving the Queerhood* 
in the Oct 3. 1990. Mmthat- 
tan Living Guide is discon¬ 
certing to those of us among 
the so-called intrepid few 
who have chosen to “venture 
off the beaten path* and 
‘seek the neutrality of 
straight neighborhoods' by 
not living in what he consid¬ 
ers ‘gay neighborhoods in 
New York.* Contrary to Mr. 
Blotcher’s reasoning, zip 
code does not correspond so 
easily with political con¬ 
sciousness or gay communi¬ 
ty involvement 

Just as there is nothing 
‘neutral* about living in a 
‘straight neighborhood.* 
there is nothing inherently 


political about living In the 
West or East Village or any of 
the other neighborhoods 
Blotcher considers gay. 
Labeling neighborhoods 
*gay* or ‘straight* only 
serves to perpetuate the 
biased attitudes some of us 
are working so hard to eradi¬ 
cate. Lesbians and gays are 
everywhere throughout the 
five boroughs, and our 
‘community activity [is not) 
limited to knowing glances or 
waves at the supermarket* 
Mr. Blotcher will learn little 
about these communities by 
staying below 14th Street 
For lesbians and gays in 
New York, address does not 
equal potties. If we let it then 
we'll accomplish nothing. 

Bdt Shannon 
Astoria 

Jay Blotcher responds: Until 
Astoria's Queer Friends and 
Neighbors group holds Its 
Inaugural meeting, my argu¬ 
ment stands. The essay may 
seem fiercely geocentric, but 
experience bears me out At 
various times during the 
past seven years I’ve lived in 
Midwood. Brooklyn. Sunny - 
side. Queens. Hoboken and 
Mr. Shannon's own Astoria. 
Certainly I had queer neigh¬ 
bors. but they were apoliti¬ 
cal—end therefore Invisible. 
Last year I settled on the 
Lower East Side In a politi¬ 
cally chargePd environment 
that escalated my involve¬ 
ment with AIDS and gay 
groups. The synergy of 
queer neighborhoods and 
queer nation is indisputable. 


Ail letters to die editor 
should Indude a name, 
address and daytime 
phone, although names 
may be withheld at the 
author's request. Out- 
Week reserves the right 
to edit Icons for darity 
and apaoe ounwlrra t in na. 



Apathy May Keep 
Gays out of City Council 



I_ bh _I 

'IN THE END. ITS A POLITICAL PROCESS .'—Ronald Jacobowitz 
(left) and Robert Bailey 


And in a city liaisons arc charged with reaching out 
whose gay com¬ 
munity has never 
been able to dea 
one of its own to 
the council, the 
decisions made by 
the Dirftxtng Com¬ 
mission could im¬ 
pact, either posi¬ 
tively or negative¬ 
ly, on the commu¬ 
nity’s electoral 
power for years to 

Created by a 
Supreme Court 
decision that 
found New Yurie’s 


by Duncan Osborne 

NEW YORK—With'less than a year 
to complete its work, the municipal 
body charged with redrawing the city's 
council districts is moving forward with 
little representation from the gay com¬ 
munity and perhaps even less interest 
on the part of lesbian and gay men in 
the redistricting process. 

The Districting Commission, a 15- 
member. independent body appointed 
by city government leaders, is now fully 
staffed and preparing to begin its first set 
of public hearings. But despite the efforts 
of a handful of lesbian and gay politicos 
to have Mayor David Dinkins appoint an 
openly gay or lesbian commissioner and, 
later, to place a gay candidate in a senior 
staff position, the commission's work is 
proceeding with a single gay man in a 
lower-lcvd staff Job, and a second work¬ 
ing as a consultant to the group. 


now-defunct Board of Estimate uncon¬ 
stitutional, the Districting Commission 
will increase the number of city council 
districts from 35 to 51. The districts must 
be drawn to ensure the fair and effective 
representation of minority groups pro¬ 
tected by the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 
which does not include gay men and 
lesbians. The commission must present 
a prototype district plan for public in¬ 
spection by Feb. 1. 1991, and must com¬ 
plete its work before June 3 of next 
year 

Ronald Jacobowitz, 31, « ooc of six 
community liaisons on staff. *We are 
making sure that New York knows what 
we are doing.' he recently tokl OufVtefc 

Although some of the liaisons 
were recruited for a particular exper¬ 
tise (one speaks Mandarin Chinese, 
and another knows American Sign 
Language, for example), none of the 


to any specific community. Neverthe¬ 
less, jacobowitz, a former volunteer 
with gay lobbying groups like FAIR- 
PAC and the Human Rights Campaign 
Fund, promised, 'I will make it my 
business to make sure the gay com¬ 
munity is informed.’ 

To that end, Jacobowitz has begun 
compiling names of gay and lesbian 
groups and individuals to be included in 
the commission's mailing list and setting 
up meetings between those groups and 
various commissioners. Staff members are 
scheduled to meet with the first commu¬ 
nity group, Gay and Lesbian Independent 
Democrats, the city’s largest gay political 
dub, later this month. 

While community input is undoubt¬ 
edly important, even Jacobowitz recog¬ 
nizes the nature of drawing district 
lines. *In the end. it is a political pro¬ 
cess,* he admitted. And while commis¬ 
sioners may be careful to solicit Input 
from every community, it may be the 
ones with the most political clout that, 
in the end, are the roost satisfied with 
the city’s new council manic map. 

Jacobowitz is constrained from act¬ 
ing as a gay advocate by the commissioa 
He may influence its work only by in¬ 
forming the community about the com¬ 
mission's work, in the hopes that it will 
increase community participation in the 
public hearings and heat up debate on 
the issue within gay circles. Com¬ 
missioners will ostensibly base their dis¬ 
trict line decisions in part on testimony 
presented at those hearings. 

Robert Bailey, a political science 
professor at Columbia University, is the 








mmm. 


second openly gay man involved with 
the Districting Commission as a con¬ 
sultant to the commission’s data-base 
management team. That team will 
maintain the information through 
which the commissioners will choose 
new district line locations. Census 
data, election results, information 
derived from mailing lists and other 
demographic statistics will all be 
included in the data base. 

While noting that gays and lesbians 
have no electoral protections under the 
voting rights act or the city's new char¬ 
ter, Bailey added, 'The kinds of con¬ 
cerns and questions a gay activist would 
ask are answered in the data base." 

Gay and lesbian observers of the 
Districting Commission’s work continue 
to express disappointment in the level of 
the community's overall interest. While 
some of the city's ethnic groups, roost 
notably Asian Americans and African 
Americans, are organizing to submit testi¬ 
mony and data on their communities to 
the commissions, gay and lesbian efforts 
are embodied in just a handful of people 

Some sources have suggested that 
the appeal of direct action has resulted 
in flagging attention to the technical as¬ 
pects of traditional electoral activism. 
But recent gay successes at the polls, in¬ 
cluding the election of Eve Preminger to 
the Manhattan Surrogate s Court and les¬ 
bian candidate Deborah dick's victory 
in the Democratic primary for state As¬ 
sembly from Greenwich Village, may 
presage a renewing community willing¬ 
ness to engage in traditional politicking 

The gay community's interaction 
with the Districting Commission is com¬ 
plicated by its demographics. While 
there are certainly neighborhoods with 
a large gay population, gay men and 
lesbians are more likely to live through¬ 
out the city's many ethnic neighbor¬ 
hoods than other minority groups, 
which are often identifiable as a dear 
majority In certain areas. While Bed- 
fbcd-Stuyveaant is populated almost en¬ 
tirely by African Americans, and Man¬ 
hattan Valley’s Latino majority Is dear, 
no one really knows if a majority of the 
East Village’s residents are gay and les¬ 
bian, despite an obvious gay presence 
throughout downtown Manhattan. 

"The Commission seems to be 
ready, willing and able to put in any 
data that any community says is rele¬ 
vant,* she added. 

Presumably, an existing gay and les- 


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Three More Casualties in a 
Volatile Leadership Landscape 



NEW YORK—Hiring*, firing* and 
resignations are redrawing the map of 
community-based AIDS services in 
New York City, and some of the moves 
may indicate that the AIDS epidemic is 
overwhelming AIDS service providers 
more than ever before. 

These changes come at a time of 
tremendous turnover In leadership at 
many gay and lesbian organizations. In 
the past year, over half of the 17- 
member support group for executive 
directors of local gay and AIDS groups 
have resigned or been fired. 

And there is one thing the current 
round of shake-ups at the Community 
Research Initiative, the AIDS Resource 
Center and the AIDS Treatment Reg¬ 
istry, which have left serious leadership 
vacuums at each group, certainly have 

•It is indicative of strain. We would 
ail agree that AIDS organizations are 
under a great amount of stress,* com¬ 
mented Derek Hodel, who, In just two 
years as the executive director of the 
People With AIDS Health Group, a 
buyer's club for experimental treat¬ 
ments, has become one of the AIDS 
community's longest-lasting chieftains. 

*Our leaders are being asked to 
perform undoable tasks and are not al¬ 
ways being supported. In a few cases, 
they are incapable or incompetent,* 
Hodel continued. 

Added Ronald Johnson, the exec¬ 
utive director of the Minority Task 
Force on AIDS for just less than two 
years, "When you have administrative 
upheaval at that level across the board, 
it cant help but have an impact on the 
delivery of services." 

As budgets shrink and caseloads 
swell, AIDS groups must redefine their 
tasks. And in the small world of commu¬ 


nity groups, the criticism from within can 
be intense, and the leaders in the fight 
against AIDS are ks frequent targets. 

•It's a very tough job being an ex¬ 
ecutive director at an AIDS organiza¬ 
tion.* said GMHCs deputy executive 
director for policy, David HanseU. They 
are very tough environments.* 

CR1 Ditches Btiarl 

In a tersely worded announcement, 
the board of the Community Research 
Initiative last week asked for the resigna¬ 
tion of Dr. Bernard Bihari, the medical 
and executive director, by the end of this 
year Bihari. who has headed CXI for sev¬ 
eral years, recently drew unprecedented 
criticism from ACT UP/NY’S Treatment 
and Data Committee, which, in a letter to 
its board, reportedly expressed fairly 
scathing dissatisfaction with CRTs results 
after more than three years of operating 
community-based dinical drug trials for 
AIDS treatments. 

The ACT UP committee interviewed 
current and former CRI employees to 
create a profle of CRI that delineates to 
failings, according to Charlie Pianchino, 
a spokesperson for Treatment and Data. 



PHASE OUT— CBI's Dr. Bernard Bihari 


The analysis of CRI complained of the 
undercnroilment of women and people 
of color in its dinical trials; allcg«l that 
pharmaceutical companies maintain an 
inappropriate influence at CRI; and 
cited a lack of published data as evi¬ 
dence of serious scientific and adminis¬ 
trative failings 

Ron English, the president of the 
board of CRI, whose organization's 


Ex-March off Dimes Exec Heads AmFAR 

NEW YORK — After functioning for over a year without a chief executive, the 
American Foundation foe AIDS Research hired Robert H. Brown, the giant AIDS phi¬ 
lanthropy announced last week. 

Brown, 48. has 20 years of experience in not-for-profit management and fund¬ 
raising with the March of Danes. 

*1 am energized in a way that I have not been in three or four years,* Brown 
told OuiWetk. "The staff her? motivates me * 

While conducting a standard review of AmFAR's operation. Brown does not 
tee any need to substantial change the group's direction. ‘Our goal continues to be 
to return as much money to the community as quiddy as possible,’ he said. 

According to press statements, AmFAR has provided $30 mlkm to more than 
470 AIDS projects nationwide since 1985. Brown wil oversee a staff of roughly 60 
people in office* here and in Los Angeles. 

Brown lives with his wife, Mary Recchia, In Terrytown, NY. -0.0. 


14 


Photo: Ellen B. Neipris 





claim to fame la its pioneering work on 
aerosolized pentamidine, now a stan¬ 
dard prophylactic treatment for AIDS- 
related pneumonia, declined to com¬ 
ment on Bihari's firing 

Speaking to ACT UPs criticism, En¬ 
glish said: T cant say how that influenced 
board members individually. As a board, 
we were not responding to ACT UP's 
complaints.’ Bihari will continue after the 
end of this year as principal investigator 
on several dinical trials that he initiated. 

Bihari, other CRI employees and 
board members, did not return OutWeetfs 
phone calls. Two CRI board members, 
Mark Harrington and Risa Denenberg, 
both regular columnists for this ma$izine, 
are also members of Treatment and Data. 

Triantafillakis Gone From ARC 

Meanwhile. Dimitri Triantafillakis 
resigned last month as executive direc¬ 
tor of the AIDS Resource Center, which 
operates Bailey House and other hous¬ 
ing programs for homeless people with 
AIDS. *1 can say nothing more than 
that it was for pressing personal rea¬ 
sons that I am not at liberty to discuss,* 
the former director said. A prepared 
statement from acting director Marion 
Riedel, reiterated his statement and 
praised Triantafillakis for his work dur¬ 
ing his ten-month tenure at ARC. 

His departure on Sept 10 came just 
four days before ARC secured a zoning 
waver from the city that will allow the 
group to convert the building next door 
to Bailey House, at Christopher and 'Vest 
streets, into a new wing. ARC had been 
threatened with losing $600,000 in federal 
construction funds had the long-sought 
zoning change not come through- 

Shortly after Boston native Tri- 
aruafillakis 1 departure from his first New 
York job, ARC began soliciting bids for 
the renovation of the building next 
door to Bailey House. The new wing 
will add 11 wheelchair-accessible beds 
to the former hotel at the corner of 
Christopher and West streets that now 
houses over 40 people with AIDS. 

Long Leaves Top Post at ATR 

And Iris Long, a founder of the 
AIDS Treatment Registry, which pub¬ 
lishes a guide to clinical trials for exper¬ 
imental AIDS drugs, has resigned as 
that group's board president, and the 
board declined to reelect her. Stephen 



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Swamped by Surge in AIDS, 
GMHC Forced to Curtail 


Caseload 



TRYM6 TO BE HOMEST—71m 
Sweeney, executive director 

by Nina Rayas and Duncan Osborn# 

NEW YORK—The AIDS epidemic 
has at but overtaken Gay Men's Health 
Crisis, forcing the world’s premiere 
AIDS service organization to begin lim¬ 
iting the number of new clients that 
will have access to the intricate maze 
of programs the group offers, and cap¬ 
ping the period of immense growth 
GMHC has experienced as the agency 
tried to keep pace with the AIDS crisis. 

The new growth-management 
plan, which will be implemented for a 
six-month period beginning in Decem¬ 
ber. after which it will be reviewed for 
efficacy, comes at a time when New 
York City is entering an economic 
slump and a major federal AIDS relief 


program received no appropriation 
from Congress. Since new AIDS cases 
are expected to skyrocket in the next 
few years, GMHCs decision to tailor 
growth means that other AIDS-service 
groups could be faced with a tidal 
wave of demand for the client services 
that GMHC has provided up until now. 

The announcement that GMHC 
will limit growth also coincides with 
the changing of the organization's top 
leadership, and it is rumored that Tim 
Sweeney. GMHCs new executive di¬ 
rector, demanded that GMHCs board 
firmly commit to a strategic develop- 



i«mifci 


-THE DEMAND BN'TGOMG AWAY* 

Tommy Thomson, dk. at client services 


ti 

*A SKOAL COMMTMBfT TO THE GAY 
COMMUNITY -—Cerise Cunrungham, 
assistant director at communications 
ment plan before he agreed to take 
over the organization’s helm. But the 
speed with which the new strategic 
plan followed Sweeney’s appointment 
last month has led some to speculate 
that the plan had been in the works 
much longer, and one source at the 
agency informed OurtRwkthat a group 
management strategy was under dis¬ 
cussion during the tenure of Jeff Braff. 
the agency's former executive director, 
who was recently forced to resign. 

While the new guidelines for man¬ 
aging GMHCs growth, which were re¬ 
leased to the organization's staff just two 
weeks ago, are designed in part to im¬ 
prove delivery of services to more than 
3,000 GMHC clients, the decision to 



Photos: T L Un/OrfWto* 














adopt a plan for limiting ex¬ 
pansion is also designed to 
ensure that GMHC will not 
become yet another casualty 
of the AIDS epidemic 

Service Delivery: 

Number-One Problem 

In just five years in New 
York state, according to 
some projections, the num¬ 
ber of women alone who 
are diagnosed with AIDS wfll 
outstrip the number of new 
AIDS cases among gay men. 
j Intravenous-drug users will 
.. constitute nearly half of the 
J new AIDS caseload, and the 
£ overall number of new cases 
wfll continue to 
nearly exponential rate. Ex- 
pens expect that adequate 
public funds will not be appropriated to 
cope with this impending onslaught of 
new AIDS cases and note that few AIDS- 
service organizations comparable in 
scope to those in the lesbian and gay 


commented Rodger Mc- 
Fariane, a former execu¬ 
tive director of GMHC 
who now runs Broad¬ 
way Cares, a philan¬ 
thropic organization ded¬ 
icated to AIDS. 

In New York, a 
great deal of the burden 
for caring for people 
with AIDS has fallen on 
GMHC, and in the pro¬ 
cess of coping with a 
quickly multiplying 
caseload and instituting 
new programs to deal 
with the projected 
needs of future clients, 
the efficiency of service 
delivery has rapidly de¬ 
clined. According to an 
Internal GMHC state¬ 
ment, recently convened client focus- 
groups, while registering few com¬ 
plaints about the quality of GMHC'a 
services, pointed to delay In receipt of 
as the number-one problem. 


"TUB IS ALL UNCHARTED TERRJ- 
EES ARE ALSO CUBfTt "—Oanise TORY "—Geoftry Knox, director 
Dalton, dir. of human resources of public relations 

d in pace with 

"Even the gay caseload continues to 
increase more than any not-for-profk (or¬ 
ganization) could expect to (deal with],’ services 


Taking a Chance on AIDS 


NEW YORK—Gauging where GMHC is heading as it pre¬ 
pares to enter its second decade of service is difficult in part 
because the organization is itsalf not immune to AIDS. Staff 
members disclose that between 10 percent end 15 percent of the 
agency's volunteers are also clients, and whie data are not avafl- 
abie on the number of employees who are HfV-posWve, estimates 
indicate that in the long haul, AIDS alone will account for a dra¬ 
matic staff turnover 

*A lot of our employees deal wflh AIDS in their private Ives as 
wel as in their professional lives,* said Denise Oalton, the agency’s 
human resources director. ‘About 10 percent of our employees 
iho make some use of our services,' shs added. 

Meanwhile, employee and volunteer attr i tion rales reflect on 
the one hand, the psychological toll of working on a professional 
level with AIDS and, on ttre other, the crucisJ role GMHC plays in 
the grooming of young soda! service professionals for entry into 
one of the many specialized agencies that deal with various aspects 
of the AIDS crisis. 

Throughout the course of the organization's existence, staff 
and volunteers have been laced with balancing what the organize- 
tion can offer with what the community of people with AIDS needs. 


and with miking judgments about the type of services that the 
agency will depend upon other social service groups to provide. 
•It’s not trying to shirk responsibility,* explains Tim Sweeney. 
GMHC* new executive director, *lt* trying to bs honest* 

Alternatively, as the face of the AIDS epidemic hss clanged, 
GMHC has added components that mala it mors attractive to peo¬ 
ple with AIDS who do not (It the agency* stereotypcal dent, such 
as on-site child cars, and guidance through the bureaucratic 
labyrinth necessary to procure homing assistance. 

In private interviews with GMHC workers, a picture emerges 
of a stiff resigned—if unhappily—to the fact that they and their 
agency simply cannot do al that they would Bai Mark Aurigemmi, 
the aesistant coordretor of intilo in diant services, laid, Tor the 
last nins months, we Vs bean working under a caseload that la 
beyond our ability. As soon as you'd hang up with one peroon, 
thais'd be three more on hold. But k toeia bod to eat a Imlt* 
Staffers are also looking Into a triage scheme for people 
who are initially turned away from GMHC. *We don't want the 
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The abort-term growth-manage¬ 
ment plan devised for testing In the fir* 
half of next year attempts to shore up 
the health of GMHC by limiting Its ser¬ 
vices to only 100 new clients per 
month. Even with that quota, the 
caseload of the organization will contin¬ 
ue to grow, but in the last six months, 
an average of 155 new clients per 
month joined GMHC, and the new cap 
on intakes will allow the organization to 
streamline delivery of services. 

Other orders to control expansion 
fall basically on two other areas of ser¬ 
vice. The ombudsman's office, which 
seeks to quickly resolve clients' urgent 
health care problems without legal inter¬ 
vention, will take no more than 200 
complaints each month after the growth- 
management program goes into effect, 
down from the approximately 250 com¬ 
plaints that the office fields now. And 
the agency's education department, 
which operates prevention programs fo¬ 
cused on gay and bisexual men, "will 
undertake no additional population 
groups outside the gay community.* 
Added former ED McFarlane, The 
problem GMHC faces is that we creat¬ 
ed a gigantic expectation.* 

The decision to implement con¬ 
trols on expansion also introduced a 
sketchy long-term strategic plan that 
concentrates on coat-efficiency analysis 

methods of raising money. And several 
of the points laid out in the long-term 
plan, such as the possibility that GMHC 
could presently attempt to recapture 
costs through Medicaid reimburse¬ 
ments, betray an undercurrent of ner¬ 
vousness about the future fiscal stability 
of die organization. 


Drop In Donation* Projected 

*We have a really big battle In front 
of us coming at the worst time,’ said Tfan 
Sweeney, GMHC* director, assessing the 
current political and economic donate of 
the country against the backdrop of the 
mushrooming AIDS epidemic. Sweeney 
is confident that his agency will survive 
the lean years that economists are pro¬ 
jecting But while it is certain that GMHC 
has the capacity to endure far more fiscal 
belt-tightening than smaller, less promi¬ 
nent AIDS-service agencies, Sweeney's 
director of finance and administration, 
Michael Bums, has already perceived a 


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by NIm Rayas 

NEW YORK—Citing financial tur¬ 
moil, (be sudden resignation of b direc¬ 
tor and a threatened exodus from the 
board, (be Pund for Human Dignity last 
week announced that the organisation 
is shutting down for good 

But sources dose to the top ecb- 
r' n of the organization, which has 
' n in a state of suspended antaoa- 
a since a staff walkout rendered it 
ert early this year, pointed to 
iironic mismanagement as the pri¬ 
mary factor in the Fluid's downfall. 

"The Fund had been in a collaps¬ 
ing stage for a long time,* admitted 
Ann Wilson, a co-chair of the Fund’s 
board, pointing out that just four 
years ago, the board bad seriously 
discussed dosing the organization. 

According to Wilson, when 
Robert Brading. the controversial het¬ 
erosexual director of the organization, 


told the board that he'd had it with 
the Fund and planned to move on as 
of Oct 12, the announcement proved 
to be the catalyst for a series of 
actions that forced the dosing of the 
Fund on Oct. 3- After learning of 
Brading's resignation, several key 
members of the board's executive 
committee declared that they, too, 
would ditch the organization, Wilson 
said, leaving the Fund In a managerial 
crisis that the remaining board felt 
was insurmountable. 

"This is a great opportunity to point 
fingers and I don't want to do that,* 
Robert Brading told OulWetk the day 
the Fund shut its doors. *1 thought we 
had made a lot of progress at the Aind, 
and that we were moving in the right 
direction. I don't think there was any 
antagonism,' added Brading, who is 
returing to a job at the National 
Conference of Christians and Jews, 


where he was the director prior to 
his tenure at the Fund 

Since early last summer, 
when first the Cnnsline volunteers 
and then virtually all of the staff 
walked out, protesting alleged 

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financial chaos, the PVmd has been 
plagued with internal problems 
and the organization’s primary 
program, a national gay and les¬ 
bian crisis hotline, has been basi¬ 
cally defunct 

A complex web of financial 
factors contributed to the sud¬ 
den demise of the Fund, too. 
Aside from debts totaling more 
than $20,000 and a reported 
judgment against the organiza¬ 
tion for $8,000 resulting from s 
suit against the Fund from a for¬ 
mer employee, the Internal 
Revenue Service attached the 
organization's account in mid- 
August. alleging that the Fund owed 
back taxes. 

Wilson said that the IRS has since 
acknowledged that the account was 
wrongfully seized, but because of the 
tax agency's bureaucratic process, the 
Fund will not be able to recoup Its 
account for sfac» nine months. 

Ed Mickens, a former communica¬ 
tions consultant to the Fund, harshly 

ration, sating that, in his opinion, dew¬ 
ing the doors of the Fund was an 
unnecessarily drastic response to the 
troubles the organization faced. *1 think 
It's really regrettable,* Mickens stated. 

Mickens also absolved Brading, 
whose appointment last spring caused 
the highly publicized uproar (hat didnt 
settle down until after the crippling 
volunteer and staff walkouts, of all 
blame for the careening course the 











OUT TAKES 


POLICE BIAS 
UNIT HIRES 
GAY COP 

NEW YORK—The New York City 
Police Department's Bias Incidents 
Investigating Unit has hired its first 
openly gay officer. But rather than praise, 
the unit Iras drawn criticism from a gay 
and lesbian police group for ignoring 
community input in making the hire. 

‘The issue is, Is the community 
being recognized? The issue is com¬ 
munity participation. Otherwise, every¬ 
thing the commissioner and the mayor 
say is just rhetoric.* says Sam Ciccone, 


executive director of the Gay Officers 
Action League, the organization that 
has been pressing the city to hire an 
openly gay officer for the bias unit 
since last May. According to Ciccone, 
the larger gay and lesbian community 
has been seeking such an appointment 
for several years Finally responding to 
community pressure, the NYPD hired 
an openly gay officer for the bias unit, 
but rejected Louise Gomez, the candi¬ 
date recommended by GOAL. Ob¬ 
servers of the process have suggested 
that NYPD went out of their way to 
avoid hiring GOAL’S choice. 

Inspector Paul Sanderson, com¬ 
manding officer of the bias unit, which 
investigates bias crimes citywide, told 


Out Week that Mark Caruso. 27. was the 
successful candidate for the investigator 
position. Caruso has five years of expe¬ 
rience on the force as a patrol officer in 
both the West Village s 6th Precinct and 
the 7th Precinct on the Lower East Side. 
Sanderson would not comment on the 
choice of Caruso over GOAL’S candi¬ 
date but stated: ‘The community has 
no direct say-so as to who we hire or 
[don't hirel. That would be extremely 
inappropriate.* 

Sanderson said that while the police 
department tries to be responsive to any 
community on mailers of hiring policy, k 
could not do so on Individual hires. 
’Once you begin to bend to that, it is 
chaos.’ Sanderson said Caruso will serve 
a standard 90-day probationary period. 
He declined to be interviewed 

Man Foreman, executive director 
of the Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence 
Project, expressed exasperation with 
the entire process. It’s an unfortunate 
situation that could have been easily 
avoided if the police de p a r tmen t had a 
mechanism for community involve¬ 
ment,* he said 

But another source who does anti¬ 
violence work expressed disappoint- 
ment in how GOAL handled the skuation. 
If s pathetic to have this controversy sur¬ 
rounding what should be a positive 
step. They put the department in a bad 
place, and the deportment thumbed his 
nose,* the source said 

Gomez, 33, has five years experi¬ 
ence on the force and as a patrol officer, 
and currently serves at the 23rd Prec i nct 
in East Harlem. A GOAL deputy director 
and a member for five years, she has 
applied to join the bias unk once before. 
This time, she received letters of support 
from the mayor's Office for the Lesbian 
and Gay Community, the Lesbian and 
Gay Community Center and the Gay and 
Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. *lf 


Jesse Helms Is 
Hazardous to Your l 
H ealth & 

WASHINGTON—‘Offensive art has 
been spotted at various locations in our 
nation's Capital,' warns a press release 
from the Reactionary Art Police, the latest 
offshoot of OUTI, a DC-based gay and 
lesbian activist group. These works of art 
must be eliminated (so] as not to offend 
the sensibilities of US taxpayers ’ 

To that end, members last month 
chose seven of Washington's vilest public 
.art works, including the Boy Scout 
Memorial pictured here, for quarantine 
with yellow‘caution* tape. On the statue 
in the Ellipse near 15th Street NW and 
Constitution Avenue, notices were posted 
that read. *Sea Jesse Helms (R-NC) has i | 
determined this art is obscene and haz- * 
ankws to the American way of life.’ 

grata 

homoerotic art but thevVe been support- homoerobc ait in DC museums and on the 
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our city," OUT* Tim Turner told OutWeek 


—Andrew Hilltr/New York 


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a community is going to be directly 
affected by a unit, I think that commu¬ 
nity should have a say in who gets 
appointed,* she told OuSWeek Neither 
Gomez nor Ocoone said that they ques¬ 
tion Caruso's qualifications, objecting 
only to the manner in which he was 
hired. According to Qocone, Caruso is a 
former GOAL member 

At present Caruso is the only 
openly gay officer serving with the bias 
unit, and the unit has no plans to hire 
additional openly gay or lesbian offi¬ 
cers in the future. 

—Duncan Osborne amt 
Andrew Miller 

SOUTER 
CONFIRMED IN 
SENATE 
LANDSLIDE 

WASHINGTON—The Senate 
voted 90-9 to confirm President 
George Bush's nomination of David 
Souter to the Supreme Court on Oct. 5, 
making the New Hampshire judge the 
High Court's 105th. 

Only nine Democrats voted 
against the nominee, whose reticence 
and lack of record on abortion and 
small but hostile history on lesbian and 
gay issues earned him denunciations 
from the community’s most prominent 
national organizations 

*1 have little faith that this nomina¬ 
tion will be a good thing for the lesbian 
and gay communtiy or for choice issues,* 
said Urvashi Vtid, the executive director 
of the National Gay and Lesbian Task 
Force. *1 would be delighted to be 
proven wrong. But based on his record 
as a judge and an attorney general. I 
don't befreve I will be." 

The nine dissenting senators were 
Alan Cranston of California; Daniel 
Akaka of Hawaii; Edward Kennedy 
and John Kerry of Massachusetts; Bill 
Bradley and Prank Lautenberg of New 
Jersey; Quentin Burdick of North 
Dakota, Barbara Mikulski of Maryland; 
and Brock Adams of Washington. 
Senator Pete Wilson, a California 
Republican, did not vote but previ¬ 
ously endorsed the nomination. 

—Andrew MOer/Sew York 


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by Paul Rykoff Coleman 


BRISTOL 
MYERS MAY 
APPLY FOR DDI 
APPROVAL BY 
YEAR’S END 

NEW YORK—AIDS activists say 
that a drug currently in dinical trials is 
showing results good enough to warrant 
an early release, but the drug company 
testing it says that it will not apply for 
Food and Drug Administration approval 
until at least the end of the year. 

The activists are from ACT UP/NYs 
Treatment and Data Committee. The 
drug company is Bristol-Myers Squibb. 
The drug is ddl, chemically related to 
AZT, the only agent approved by the 
FDA for treatment against HIV. A Bristol- 
Myers spokesperson said that the com¬ 
pany will not file a new drug application 
with the FDA until the end of the year 
or early neat year. Optimism among ac¬ 
tivists and some researchers for an early 
release for ddl follows on the publica¬ 
tion of a long-term study conducted by 
the National Cancer Institute in the SepL 
1 Issue of the British medical journal 
The Lancet. The Nd researchers noted 
improvements in immunologic indica¬ 
tors ai doses that reduced the severity of 
side effects known to occur with the 
drug. It's these immunologic indicators, 
surrogate markers, that activists say 
should be considered far drug approval. 
Traditionally, dinical studies have relied 
not on improvements in indMdua, sub¬ 
jects but on end points, such as death. 

Bristol-Myers executives and four 
members of the Treatment and Data 
Committee met on Sept. 26, as they do 
periodically, to assess progress of the 
ddl trials Jim Eigo, a committee mem¬ 


ber, later reported at the committee’s 
weekly meeting that Bristol-Myers said 
that phase I trials testing safety also 
showed good dinical efficacy. T4 cells, 
an indictor of immunity, either rose or 
stayed at their initial levels. Also, the 
company executives told the committee 
members that no Interactions occurred 
between ddl and other drugs. 

'That’s a pretty broad claim,' Eigo 
told the committee, adding that the com¬ 
pany seemed to be 'fumbling and bum¬ 
bling' with the FDA, slowing down the 
approval process. The committee mem¬ 
bers and Bristol-Myers also discussed 
the company's changing the buffer 
antacid in ddl’s formulation. Current 
studies arc now using a dtntc phosphate 
buffer, which produces diarrhea, tastes 
bad and is loaded with sugar. The com¬ 
pany spokesperson, Susan Yarin, told 
Out Week that the new buffer will have 
less sugar and is not expected to cause 
diarrhea “Without that buffer,’ she said, 
'ddl wouldn't be absorbed and wouldn’t 
work.* The new buffer will not be used 


in ongoing trials and should not delay 
FDA approval, Eigo said. 

ddl is the first drug to be tested un¬ 
der an experimental program known as 
parallel track. Under this system, people 
with AIDS who cannot tolerate, or have 
developed resistance to. AZT and do not 
meet entrance criteria into a study may 
get the drug through their doctor. Many 
researchers are opposed to parallel track, 
arguing that the system discourages en¬ 
rollment in dinical trials. But supporters 
say that many people with AIDS do not 
qualify because of the study's rigid re¬ 
quirements, and parallel track allows 
them to get the drug. Currently, three 
major trials, pan of the National Institutes 
of Health AIDS Clinical Trails Group, are 
underway. In the lancet study, 58 people 
with AIDS or AIDS-Related Complex 
were given doses that either started low 
and were increased or high and de¬ 
creased. The researchers fixed on 9 6 mil¬ 
ligrams per kilogram of body weight as 
one that showed efficacy with minimal 
side effects. Higher doses produced ncu- 


ln the Pipeline... 

The manufacturer of loses met an intravenously administered drug that delays 
progression of cytomegalovirus infection of the retina, filed a new drug application 
with the US Food and Drug Administration on Sept. 21. The drug can be released 
once the FDA approves the application. CMV occur* in 20 percent of people with 
AIDS. If left untreated, it can cause blindness. Currently, the only approved drug for 
CMV is ganciclovir, which cannot be taken with AZT because of simkar side effects 
on white blood cells. Astra Pharmaceutical Products Inc. plans to market the agent 
under the trade name. Foscavir. Its sponsors are calling it “the largest study of its 
kind ever conducted"—mors than 30 community-based dinics nationwide will pro¬ 
vide ongoing information on more thin 1,000 patients with HIV, induding disease 
progression and treatments, to an observation data base. The National Institutes of 
Health and the American Foundation for AIDS Research want to get data from a 
wide cross-section of those with HfV infection. Over 1,000 people with HIV infection 
are expected to participate in cooperation with their physicians. 

-PJLC. 



ropathy, pancreatitis and hepatitis B. 
Data from 13 people with AIDS who 
stayed with the study longest—up to 20 
months—showed increases in T4 cells. 
The researchers noted that these increas¬ 
es were statistically significant for at least 
nine months. 

Improvements in cognitive dys¬ 
function were noted in those with de¬ 
mentia. Eighty percent of people with 
AIDS and 93 percent of those with ARC 
were surviving after 21 months. The 
Lancet authors stress that their data and 
study design allow no conclusions about 
whether ddl actually reduces disease 
progression and how it stands in com¬ 
parison with ACT. 

Activists want drug companies and 
the FDA to seriously consider surrogate 
markers—T4 activity, p24 antigen activi¬ 
ty to determine whrther the virus is ac¬ 
tive and overall clinical benefit—when 
considering approving a drug before all 
data are in. But data submission is the 
burden of the drug company. 


OPPOSES AIDS PROVISIONS —Dr Louis 
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WASHINGTON—Health and Hu¬ 
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Sullivan is voicing strong objections to 
a House bill that would strengthen 
both AIDS research and funding at the 
National Institutes of Health. 

In a six-page Sept. 25 letter ad¬ 
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John Dtngdl, Sullivan wrote (hat he op¬ 
posed, among other items, provisions for 
feta] re s e ar ch, increasing participation of 
women and people of color in clinical 
trials, chronic fatigue syndrome research, 
and hiring senior researchers at salaries 
competitive with the private sector. All 
are directly related to AIDS research. 

The letter represents Dr. Sullivan's 
position and (he position of the adminis¬ 
tration,' said an HHS source who re¬ 
quested anonymity. There are efforts to 
get Republicans to actively oppose the 


bill.' He added that this legislation was 
among “hundreds of issues and hundreds 
of bills the department has an interest 
in.' The bill, HR 566-Natkxial Institutes 
of Health Revitalization Amendments of 
1990, was reported out of committee on 
Sept 26 but was bounced back last week 
because, with a majority—but not two- 
thirds—of committee members voting in 
favor of it, the bill would be vulnerable 

floor, according to ACT UP/NY's John 
Ende and Steve Brown, who are follow¬ 


ing the bill's progress. 

In his letter, Sullivan takes issue 
with a provision that would undermine 
his authority to regulate fetal tissue trans¬ 
plantation research by setting up an in¬ 
dependent review board, which, Sullivan 
wrote, “would be an intrusion on the ex¬ 
ecutive branch.’ He added, 'It is our 
judgment that the pursuit of fetal tissue 
transplantation research has the potential 
of providing an inducement to proceed 
with an abortion for those women con¬ 
sidering terminating a pregnancy.’ 

Because fetal tissue can be planted 
in a person's thymus without rejection, it 
has important implications In AIDS re¬ 
search . T cells, an essential part of the 
body’s immune system, are made in the 
thymus. There's a real implication here 
that abortion's illegal,* criticized Ende. 
TTs not' Sullivan also objected to includ¬ 
ing more women and people of color in 
dinical trials, an issue of concern to ac¬ 
tivists. 'Such an inflexible requirement 
could in fact jeopardize the initiation of 
NIH dinical trials,’ he wrote, 'induding 
the very trials that would provide valuable 
data relevant to women's health.* 

He opposed a provision for chronic 
fatigue syndrome research, saying that 
the NIH is already studying it. (Some in 
the gay community believe chronic fa¬ 
tigue syndrome is related to HEY infec¬ 
tion.) He opposed expanding the au¬ 
thority of the National Institute of Allergy 
and Infectious Disease’s AIDS Research 
Advisory Comm In ee, which, he wrote, 
•would be inappropriate for an Insdtute- 
levei committee to provide advise Isle} 
on research priorities to other compo¬ 
nents of the NIH.' Finally, he opposed a 
provision that would establish research 
positions at salaries no less than those 
paid in the private sector, daiming that 
the Federal government is working on a 
revised personnel system. ▼ 

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blan voting bloc. If left intact by the com¬ 
mission, could put Its own candidate, 
straight or gay, in office. Pie! also said 
that she hopes to move the community 
to 'make noise" and attend the commis¬ 
sion's hearings. “A motivated minority 
can make a difference,* she said. 

Meanwhile, Ken Sherrill, who, In 
1977, became the city's first openly gay 
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POLITICAL SCIENCE , 


The Roads Not Taken 

by Mark Harrington 


Senior people prcssion and its publication by the 

in infectious dis- CDC, it rapidly became apparent that 

ease, generally out ■ the new disease of the immune syv 

of personal fear tn U tem was linked to a disorder of T-cell 

1981-82, did not P subsets. T cells had only recently 

do anything tn the l . A been differentiated, and there were 

/AIDS!field And new assays which could distinguish 

that s the failure between T4 and T8 cells. In 1981. 

of the American Joseph Sonnabcnd called Stuart 

medical system. Schlossman, the Harvard Immunolo- 

AB of those people generally left the field gist who did the original work with 

alone—generally out of medical fear. monoclonal anybodies, which en- 

Tbey bad experience with tuberculosis or abled us to distinguish between T4 

syphilis—chronic long-term diseases. A kit cells, T8 cells and so on. 

of what we know about mutttdrug treat- *1 suppose you’ve been deluged 

merits is derived from TB—but these with phone calls about people wanting 

infectious disease people today don't bate to work on this new disease, which 

any relationship to TB—sanatoria, endU- involves T-cell subsets," said Sonnabend. 

pie studies, overlapping tcadcittes. "No, you're the first on who's called," 

—An ACTC Researcher 


I t's easy to forget how new this all 
b. Modem medicine is less than 200 
years old. The germ theory of disease 
is about 100 years old. The first "magic 
bullet" cure for an infectious disease 
was discovered only 75 years ago. The 
first antibiotics were discovered 60 
years ago. The very few effective 
antiviral drugs that exist have been 
around for less than 20 years. 

The first comparative clinical trials 
were done In the '40». Randomization 
was initially performed (on plants) in 
the '20s. Use of placebos began in the 
'30s Combination therapy for tuberculo¬ 
sa was first tested in the early '50s. 

Medical progress does not come 
by following the rules, it comes from 
changing the rules. This b rarely rec¬ 
ognized by today s AIDS elite. They 
have not learned from medical history. 
Many have not even learned from the 
mistakes made over the last decade. 

A poverty of imagination b eating 
away at the integrity of American sci¬ 
ence. In 1981, with the identification 
of the new disease of immunosup- 


The AIDS elite has 
ignored scores of 
potential pathways. 


replied Schlossman. 

This dismaying tale reveals some¬ 
thing pervasive from the very start of 
the epidemic—the failure of those with 
public health responsibilities to recruit 
the nation's top immunologists into 
research on AIDS. Even the National 
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Dis¬ 
eases, with program responsibility for 
both immunity and AIDS, has been vir¬ 
tually colonized in its AIDS research by 
oncologists from the National Cancer 
Institute and by the virologists who 
pioneered antiviral trials for Burroughs 
Wellcome with .Acyclovir (Zovirax) and 
AZT (Retrovir) 

The result b that we know db- 
mayingly little about how HIV works 
In the body (although we have mas¬ 


sive data about how it behaves in cer¬ 
tain laboratory cell lines). 

Ten years later, we’re still in the 
dark. Scores of potential pathways 
have been ignored. While reputable 
mainstream scientists publish crushing- 
ly obvious conclusions ("as you get 
sicker, more virus can be isolated from 
your T cells"), we still haven’t got 
much of an idea about exactly how 
HIV is linked to the overwhelming 
immunosuppression found in its wake. 

Does the immune reaction to 
HIV cause disease? The inflammatory 
response of the immune system 
(fevers, swelling, etc.) b a primitive, 
evolutionarily ancient mechanism 
which sometimes does more harm 
than good. Some of the chemicals 
released during the immune inflam¬ 
matory response activate HIV in the 
test tube (IL-2, GM-CSF, tumor necro¬ 
sis factor), while others may be 
linked to both HIV activation and 
Kaposi's sarcoma growth (1L-6 and 
others). Yet there have been virtually 
no studies designed to correct abnor¬ 
mal levels of these cytokines— 
indeed, they are more often tested as 
therapies (TNF or interferon) in spite 
of evidence that their levels are 
already abnormally high. 

What about B cells and autoim¬ 
mune reactions? Another observation 
virtually ignored by orthodox re¬ 
searchers b the proliferation of B cells 
(which produce antibodies) and anti¬ 
bodies in people with AIDS. Some of 
these antibodies attack the person's own 
tissue, causing thrombocytopenia 
(platelet deficiency), cardiomyopathy 
(heart disease), and attacking T cells 
themselves Virtually no therapies have 
been studied to determine whether 
autoimmune reactions in AIDS can be 
treated. Is B cell activation linked to 
Epstein-Barr virus (which lives in B 
ceils), and b the presence of EBV linked 


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to the increasingly common lym¬ 
phomas? Does Interleukin-6 produced 
by Infected cells contribute to autoim¬ 
munity or lymphoma? There are as yet 
no treatments against IL-6 or EBV. 

Why is the immune defect in AIDS 
so narrow, and yet so profound? 
Among the most striking features of 
AIDS is bow few opportunistic organ¬ 
isms cause disease (just 30 or so of the 
hundreds of organisms which can 
cause disease in humans), and yet how 
those organisms must be treated for 
life once they do. Do those organisms 
have something in common? They 
may. Many of them have thick, greasy 
membranes (TB. MAI, toxoplasma, 
cryptococcus) which evade detection 
by defective or depleted T4 ceils Others 
are berpes viruses wbicb live inside 
ceils , and themselves produce destruc¬ 
tive cytokines (HSV, CMV, EBV). Much 
rapid progress could be made by treat¬ 
ing these organisms as classes and per¬ 
haps searching for cytokines which 
could improve immune recognition. 

As the remark at the start of the col¬ 
umn attests, however, AIDS initially (and, 
to some extent, stffl) failed to attract the 

Why do some people have severely 
depleted T4 cells, and yet remain 
healthy? Many people are walking 
around with under 100 T4 cells, yet 
remain healthy and free of opportunistic 
complications. Their immune system are 
obviously compensating somehow for 
the deficiency in T4 helper cells. How> Ax 
the Sixth International San Francisco 
AIDS conference in June, Jay Levy of 
UC/San Francisco demonstrated that TB 
cells in infected persons secrete a chem>- 
cal which controls HIV infection in T4 
cells. VFbat is that cbemicaP. If k could 
be isolated and purified, that alone migbl 
bold HIV in check 

In sum, then, there has been a 
striking failure of Imagination among 
those coordinating and conducting AIDS 
research in this country. Narrow dogma 
and premature orthodoxies conspired to 
restrict the scope of basic snd clinical 
research alike. It is well past Ume to dis¬ 
card many of these useless restrictions 
on research, to broaden the scope of 
current research and to recruit specialists 
from outside the field (those who are on 
the cutting edge of Immunology or 
infectious diseases, for example) to 
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What’s the Point? 

by Ayofemi Folayan 


A few months 
ago In anoth¬ 
er publication. I 
criticized a Black 
gay male poet 
from New York 
for the misogynist 
content of one of 
his works, after 
having heard him 
read the poem at the National Black 
Gay and Lesbian Leadership Conference 
held in Atlanta He wrote to me. in 
response, expressing his disappointment 
that I did not choose to dialogue direct¬ 
ly with him. His letter reads, in part 
"There is no point in my making 
any effort to grapple with sexism as it 
affects women if there is no reward for 
me; if my pro-feminist efforts cannot 
improve my relationship and my com¬ 
munication with you: Why even bother? 
I'm In this so I can be mote honest with 
you here and now. not so I can adhere 
to some static higher moral imperative." 

Because this particular individual 
prides himself in being pro-feminist, 
this response was tarring to me, as if 
someone had splashed a bucket of cold 
water over my head. It had simply 
never occurred to me that anyone with 
any developed political consciousness 
would question the appropriateness of 
behaving in a nonoppresuve way with¬ 
out the promise of some immediate 
reward. For me, the question is analo¬ 
gous to asking, "If I go into a store that 
has no security system, why shouldn't I 
shoplift?" Eliminating oppressive behav¬ 
ior is not simply an exercise done for 
the benefit of others who arc 
oppressed. The "higher moral impera¬ 
tive" should also be seen as a reward, 
in the sense that it creates the possibili¬ 
ty for a more inclusive community 

I often get into trouble by assum¬ 
ing that gay men and lesbians, precisely 
because of the beterosexet and homo¬ 
phobic oppression we all experience. 


have a greater willingness to work 
against all forms of oppression than 
heterosexuals. Yet the persistent racism, 
sexism and ableism I experience in our 
community as a Black lesbian with dis¬ 
abilities dearly challenges this notion. 

Indeed, there is an almost intransi¬ 
gent resistance to acknowledging per¬ 
sonal responsibility when someone 
expresses criticism of oppressive 
behavior. For example, a hind-raising 


Although I was 
insulated from racism 
for a few days, the 
conference of Black 
gay men and lesbians 
in Atlanta was replete 
with incidents that 
were sexist, classist 
and ableist. 


dance for the National Lesbian Confer¬ 
ence was scheduled at a church audi¬ 
torium in Atlanta, which is inaccessible 
to some who are physically chal¬ 
lenged When the organizers were 
informed that it was not possible for 
women in wheelchairs to attend the 
dance, their response could be para¬ 
phrased as 'Why pick on us? We’re try¬ 
ing to raise money for a good cause!" 


Similarly, many gay men working 
actively for improved health care for 
PWAs seem resentful of my insistence 
on the inclusion of women's health 
issues, such as breast cancer and 
lupus, in their agenda. 

Partly, my demand for indusiviry 
is personally motivated. As someone 
experiencing multiple oppressions. I 
cannot simply retreat to the safety of 
"my community.* If I seek sanctuary in 
the gay and lesbian community, I 
encounter racism and ableism; if I turn 
to the Black community, I experience 
homophobia and ableism. I have not 
even attempted to Interface with the 
disability activists' community, except 
where they arc already port of one of 
the other communities of which I am a 
member. However, there is a more 
Important imperative that guides my 
insistence upon ending all forms of 
oppression than simply a personal or a 
"moral" one. 

The reality is that if we don’t 
struggle to end all oppressions, we 
cannot truly eliminate any oppressions. 
As long as AIDS activists remain 
focused on getting better care for 
PWAs alone, they will be fighting oth¬ 
ers—women who have breast cancer 
and persons who are chronically 
underemployed (and therefore have 
no health insurance)—for the leftover 
crumbs from an inadequate health care 
system. A coalition effort re p r es e n ting 
all of these interests leads to a greater 
chance of making the system more 
accountable for the needs of everyone. 

Traditionally, coalition politics has 
meant sacrificing some port of your iden¬ 
tity far the achievement of a commonly 
desired goal. With a commitment to true 
indusiviry. women working in coalitions 
shouldn't have to fear sexism, Blades 
shouldn't be dodging racism, Jews 
shouldn't be anocipatmg the next arui- 
semibc remark. Although it is true I was 
insulated from racism for a few days, the 



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OBITUARIES 
Werner P. Kuhn 

Werner Kuhn died Sunday. Sept 23. 
1990. at UCLA Medical Center Hospital m 
Los Angeles of complications arising from 
AIDS. His companion, Charles Hankins, 
reported that he has been hospitalized 
since before Labor Day. 

Mr. Kuhn, a lawyer, lived in Albany, 
NY. from 1973 to 1985, where he was 
active in many civic affairs. He was the 
founder and first president of the Hudson 
Mohawk Business and Professional 
Association and later president of the 
National Gay and Lesbian Business 
Council. Mr. Kuhn was a founder and 
board member of the Eleanor Roosevelt 
Democratic Club in Albany. He also helped 
found, and served on, the board of the 
Capital District Lesbian and Gay 
Community Center. 

Werner Kuhn chaired the board of the 
Albany County Mental Health Association 
from 1974 to 1976. He was also counci to 
the New York Council on Alcoholism in the 
70s. His many activities included serving 
on the board at the Puerto Rican Dance and 
Theater Company in New York City and the 
Hudson Park Association in Albany. 

Professionally. Mr. Kuhn was on the 
staff of the New York City Charter 
Commission in the early 70s. He was an 
assistant council-in the NY State 
Department of Environmental Conservation 
and a staff attorney of the Legal Aid 
Society in Albany. 

In 1985. Werner Kuhn moved to 
Southern California where he was 
director of the Orange County Lesbian 
and Gay Community Services Center. 
This center was also funded by the state 
of California to deliver human and social 
services to persons with AIDS. He was a 
founding member and treasurer of the 
California Association of AIDS Agencies 
and was a member of the Orange County 
HIV Advisory Council. 

In his early years. Mr. Kuhn was 
active in the Ripon Society, becoming the 
national vice chair in the late '60s. 

Werner Paul Kuhn was bom on May 
6.1943. in Rye. NY. the son of Ottifee and 
Hans Kuhn. He graduated from Dartmouth 
College and remained active in its alumni 


association. Mr. Kuhn earned his law 
degree from Columbia Law School. He 
also took postgraduate studies in business 
at Columbia. In the earty ’70s. he was a 
participant in the Conference on 
International Law of the Sea held in 
Malta. It was sponsored by the Institute 
for the Study of Democratic Institutions 
in Santa Barbara. 

Werner Kuhn was an avid devotee of 
opera and was attending the Santa Fe 
Opera Festival in August of this year when 
the first sign of physical iHness occurred. 

—Ernest 0. Reaugh 

Kenneth R. Barclay 

My very dear friend. Kenny Barclay, 
age 28. died of complications due to 
AIDS near his family home in Stockton. 
Calif., on Thursday. Sept. 20.1990. 

Kenny was the first person I 
became friends with when I moved to 
New York City in 1984 and has been my 
best friend ever since. 

Kenny was the most impassioned 
person I've every met; he was both a 
dreamer and a doer. He ran off to London 
for a year and worked as a gardener, 
having tired of New York City restaurant 
jobs. He threw great parties in his 
backyard in Hoboken, where we all 
danced to the Smiths, and where 
everyone always stayed over. I think of 
him as someone both completely sane 
and truly modern. His light was like a 
laser, capable of healing. When I phoned 
him to say hello, he invariably answered: 
"Honey! Get a load of this!" and suddenly 
it would be three hours later, and my ear 
would ache, and my stomach—from 
laughing and talking too fast. 

Kenny worked as an AIDS activist in 
the San Francisco Bay Area, spray-painting 
graffiti against PWA discrimination, 
running a thrift shop to benefit PWAs, 
volunteering at the local AIDS foundation 
and. this past June, serving as a delegate 
to the Sixth International AIDS Conference 
in San Francisco. 

"Love, light and joy." he always said 
when parting. I never heard him say 
goodbye, so I won’t say it now. 

Love, light and joy, Kenny. I sure do 
miss youI Memorial donations may be 
made in Kenny’s name to the San 


Joaquin AIDS Foundation. 4410 No. 
Pershing Ave., Stockton, CA 95207. 

—MarkS. Cosgrove 

James E. Chagares 

A fighter made peace on Sept 19. 
1990, at age 33. Jim died of compli¬ 
cations resulting from several AIDS- 
related infections. 

Demo was bom on JtAy 20.1967. He 
graduated from New Rochelle High School. 
Pace University and New York State 
University at New Paltz. His business career 
was with JC Penny Co. and Brooks 
Brothers, where he was an assistant buyer. 

He is survived by his mother. Jean, his 
brother. Spin*. and his ife-mats, Brian. 

Demo was an extraordinary person 
with an enormous zest for Me. He had a love 
affair vwth birds and animals, and they re¬ 
turned hie affection. He also had a terrific 
green thumb. His 
apartment—"his 
pride"—was me- 
do-filed, housing 
a jungle of green¬ 
ery. cages of 
birds and tanks of 
tropical fish. He 
cruised all the 
boroughs on hit 
bike, noting the 

_ new architecture. 

He knew every 
unusual tree in Central Park. 

Demo’s friends were his wealth. 
During his long hospital stay, he was 
seldom alone—holding court with the 
dry wit that never left him. While Brian 
was his first love. Demo, indeed, had 
many who returned his love. 

Following his wishes. Jim was 
cremated and his ashes scattered off Fire 
Island. His hope was that while walking 
the beach, his friends would rejoice in 
his freedom and catch his spirit 

Contributions in his name may be 
made to: AIDS Treatment Registry. PO 
Box 30234, New York. NY 10011. 

A celebration of Iks Me will be held on 
Sunday, Oct 21. at 3 pm. at the home of 
Stephen Machoh. 178 bane St, in Manhat¬ 
tan. Calls can be made to (212) 779-7327. 

Our love is forever. Demo. 

-Blair McFadden 





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The horrific queer-bashing epidemic 
continues to spin out of control, but 
the mayor and the media have 
hardly taken notice. With an anti-gay 
hate crime occurring in New York 
City almost every day^ talk among 
lesbians and gay men has now 
turned to taking up guns. 

n July 2, a gay man was horn- the daw end of a hammer, 

bly murdered In Jackson BY NINA REYES Throughout the summer, a number of 
Heights. Queens. No arrests gay men were killed on the Christopher 

haVe been made in connection with the Street pier. A transvestite was shot dead in the Bronx. Two 
grotesque execution, which was accomplished lesbians embracing on a comer off Sixth Avenue were sur- 
ihrough the infliction of multiple sub wounds rounded by a gang of 12 teenage boys and girls who kicked 

and repeated blows to the man’s head with them to the ground while spectators silently watched the 





brutal beating. 

And six gay men walking home from a dub on the 
night of Sept. 15 were set upon by a gang of more than a 
dozen young thugs yelling anti-gay epithets. One youth 
then pulled out a gun, put it to one of the gay men's 
heads and threatened. “Next time. I'll blow you away" 
The sole basher taken into custody following the assault 
was released after a 6th Precinct cop allegedly told the gay 
man that if he persisted in pressing charges against his 
attacker, counter-charges would be filed against him. 

In the heart of queer Manhattan, the West Village, 
dozens and dozens of vicious anti-gay assaults have been 
logged, including several that were carried out with gay- 
bashers’ weapon of choice, the baseball bat. In the East 
Village, on the other hand, homo-haters have favored 
razors, and a number of gay men have received countless 
stitches to dose slashes Inflicted by the scum who hate us. 

These crimes, taken with the dozens of brutal attacks 
reported this past summer in OutWeeh —and the hundreds 
more that were never reported at all—only begin to define 
the reign of terror under which lesbians and gay men now 
live in New York City. There are anti-lesbian rapes, innu¬ 
merable verbal assaults, instances of arson, threatening let¬ 
ters and phone calls and bullies accused of heinous anti¬ 
gay attacks who are released without bail from an 
overcrowded judicial system back onto the streets. • 

But perhaps the most terrifying part of the exponen¬ 
tially rising rate of anti-gay and anti-lesbian violence is that 
it continues without registering on the consciousness of 
most of the public. Apart from the institutions within our 
community that have been built up to cope with the steady 


stream of bias incidents, no one seems to care. From the 
police to City Hall to the mainstream media, bi these times 
of murder, intimidation and mutilation, we have heard 
only resounding silence. 

I n this vacuum of response, gay men and lesbians 
have been left to fend for ourselves, and talk of com¬ 
munity self-arming—quite separate from community 
self-defense—has once again burbled up in discus¬ 
sions about what we can do to protea oursdves. It 
began with talk of bashing back, grew to community 
patrols and when even that clearly did not deter the 
attacks, escalated to debates about the comparative advan¬ 
tages of gening guns 

To some people, self-arming seems like the only 
remaining option. "1 don't necessarily condone or approve 
of violence, but at this point I don't know what else I can 
do," remarks Larry Kramer, writer, playwright and father of 
the AIDS aaivLst movement. "I keep wishing that some 
group of men and women more courageous than I would 
start a terrorist group." 

Another activist, Robert Hilferty, who just two weeks 
ago saw a friend struck in the head by a queer-basher armed 
with brass knuckles, agrees with Kramer's sentiment and 
takes it one step further Hilferty. with several acquaintances, 
is exploring the possibility of taking up target practice. 

•| have a dream that one day I will be a menace to 
homophobic society," Hilferty explains. "I want to be an 
anti-anti-gay terrorist." 

Man Foreman, director of the New York City Gay and 
Lesbian Anb-Violence Project although an ardent opponent of 




self-arming, cautions that the 
remarkable restraint shown by 
the community thus far 
last. *No other community 
would have endured this vio¬ 
lence without responding in 
kind,’ he explains. Further¬ 
more, acknowledging the 
appeal that striking back with 
the dramatic decision to arm 
the community bolds, particu¬ 
larly the sort of ’don't-fuck- 
with-us’ message that many 
lesbians and gay men want to 
publicly broadcast, Foreman 
comments, ’Tempers and 
patience are now worn to the 
breaking point.’ 

"I think if violence against 
lesbians and gays continues to 
escalate, that's going to have to 
be one of our choices,’ warns 
Pink Panther Gerri Wells, even 
though she too does not per¬ 
sonally advocate self-arming. 

Several other people con¬ 
tacted for comment disclosed 
that they occasionally carry 
concealed weapons when they 
expect that they will be in a 
threatening situation, but only 
one Individual confessed to 
having pulled out his weapon 
as a deterrent to violence. 

However, respondents uni¬ 
formly agreed that the tempta¬ 
tion to publicly take up arms. 

In the hope that their action 
would intimidate potential 
gay-bashers, is overwhelming. 

But if the strap-on-a-six- 
shootcr mentality is emblem¬ 
atic of profound desperation 
among lesbians and gay men, 
a majority of the community 
still seems committed to 
resolving the problem without 
resorting to in-kind retaliation. 

' This is not the solution 
to a very serious social 
problem,* observes Sam 
Ciccone, director of Gay Officers Action League, a group 
of openly gay and lesbian cops, pointing out that when 
individuals act solely for their self-protection, the larger 
issue of where bias-related hate comes from be¬ 
comes easy to Ignore, thus defeating any real efforts to 
combat homophobia. 

In contrast to queers interviewed who want to self-arm 
for an increased sense of safety, Vanessa Ferro, the lesbian 
and gay liaison for the police department, reported that 


carrying a gun at all times, 
which she is required to do as 
a police officer, gives her no 
added security. ’I always feel 
like I am at risk,’ Ferro 
admitts. *1 don’t feel above 
any other civilian in this city.’ 

Other lesbians and gay 
men who have packed a pistol 
in the past note that weapons 
often end up being turned 
against their owners, ultimately 
making gun-possession poten¬ 
tially more dangerous than 
walking softly without that 
big stick. 

*1 would understand it 
and recommend it for some¬ 
one who is truly trained,* says 
Rodger McFariane, director of 
Broadway Cares and an 
expert in small firearms. But, 
he adds, ’It's important to 
point out that for people who 
are trained in hand-to-hand 
[combat] and small arms, most 
of their training is in avoiding 
conflict and resolving conflict 
and using deadly force only in 
the last resort.* 

Still another argument 
against the impulse to self-arm 
b based in the utterly reason¬ 
able fear that if even a few gay 
men and lesbians pubiidy vow 
to harness on a holster. It will 
give the cops the excuse 
they've been waiting for to train 
their own cross-hairs on us. 
Since the object of getting guns 
b to keep the community from 
harm, rational analysis in that 
tenor is far more persuasive 
than peacenik anti-NRA jargon. 

Predictably, many author¬ 
ities who caution us against 
taking our defense Into our 
own hands are the same people 
who are doing lisle or nothing 
to come to our aid. While they 
support the Pink Panthers— 
perhaps because the presence of a community patrol takes 
the heat off the cops—the police department, fully cognizant 
of the fact that their armory does not even begin to compare 
to the heavy artillery already on the streets, can’t stand the 
idea of armed and angry queers. The mayor, for hb part, 
praises vigilance and condemns vigilantism 

But who b taking responsibility for the fact that we are 
anybody’s target when we walk the streets as openly gay 
and lesbian people? 



“I keep wishing 


that some 
group of [gay] 
men and women 
would start a 
terrorist group.” 

—Larry Kramer 




W e queers are mere Iflcdy than any other das of 
people to be subjected to violent crimes because 
of who we are, according to statistics from the 
bias unit of the New York Gty Police Department. 

Prom Jan. 1 to Aug. 31, counting 71 hate- 
motivated crimes against lesbians and gay men, 
the bias unit logged a 107 percent Increase In anti-gay crimes 

same period in 1969- That number marics a higher rate of bias- 
related assault, verbal harassment and robbery against gay 
men and lesbians than against any other demographic group 
It also makes queer-hashing the fastest-growing category of 
crime in the city. In addition, as bias-motivated incidents 
involving lesbians and gay men have dramatically increased, 
(he number of crimes motivated by prejudice against African 
Americans and Asian Americans has substantially declined, 
and the number of prejudice-motivated crimes against Lati¬ 
nos has essentially remained the same. 

What the bias unit does not disclose in its statistics, how¬ 
ever, is that the police department itself materially contributes 
to the problem. Whether it b their refusal to write out a com¬ 
plaint of gay-re bird harassment or assault because the paper¬ 
work involved Is a hassle, or their persistent use of anti-gay 
and anti-lesbian slurs in their dealings with us, the cops' disre¬ 
gard for victims of bias-motivated crimes b markedly disturb¬ 
ing. Stark illustration of the reluctance within the police 
department to deal seriously with anti-gay crime is offered by 
the fact that during the period that the police department's 
bias unit recorded 71 cases of hate-motivated anti-gay crimes, 
the New York CJry Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project doc¬ 
umented a whopping 403 cases. 

Even promising steps, such as last week's announcement 
that the police departmen t has added an openly gay police 
officer to the bias unit, reportedly on a temporary basis, come 
shrouded in offense. GOAL presented the police department 
with a highly qualified candidate for appointment to the bias 
unit as an openly lesbian officer, but in selecting an officer for 
the position, the department pointedly ignored GOAL'S recom¬ 
mendation. "It's simply another way in which they do not take 
lesbian and gay people seriously,* GOAL director Oocone bit¬ 
terly remarks. 

The bias unit’s statistics also do not reveal that unlike the 
other demographic cate g orie s on which bias-related numbers 
are kept, hate-motivated charge s which generally cany a 
stiffer penalty—ore not available to gay and lesbian crime vic¬ 
tims. No statutory violation b committed in singling someone 
out for attack based on hb or her perceived or actual sexual 
orientation. That b. while the bias unit will provide additional 
resources to a precinct's investigation into a hate-motivated 
crime against a lesbian or a gay man, bus-related premedita¬ 
tion does not figure into sentencing when a case is successful¬ 
ly prosecuted in court 

And yet, though there b a crucial legal difference between 
anti-gay crimes and other hate-inspired offenses, the police 
department doesn't apply a different standard in making a bias 
designation. Since the cops locate the primary indicator of 
bias-related motivation in the use of anti-gay epithets, to meet 
the bias standard, an anti-gay crime must explicitly begin as an 
anti-gay confrontation To date, according to anti-violence 
activists, only one case has been turned over to the bias unit 


for investigation that did not involve anti-gay language 

Activists anticipate that the new guidelines for classifica¬ 
tion of bias-related cases, which are being written to comply 
with (be federal Hate Crimes Statistics Act signed into law ear¬ 
lier thb year, wtl broaden the definition of what constitutes a 
hate-motivated crime. But until the hate-crimes bill in Albany 
la enactrd, back-of-the-bus justice will remain the standard for 
lesbians and gay men. 

P erhaps even more so than the police department, 
Cky Hall b responsible for the unchecked wave of 
anti-gay violence sweeping through the community. 
New York City Mayor David Dinkins, who talks 
tough about hb hatred of crimes motivated by prej¬ 
udice, has acted in response to gay-related bias 
crimes without any of the passion of that rhetoric. 

Dinkins' failure to spearhead the campaign to pass the 
state hate crimes legislation, which was defeated in mid sum¬ 
mer (traditionally the peak period for anti-gay crimes), severe¬ 
ly disappointed many of hb remaining supporters in the gay 
and lesbian community. One OuHWw* source alleged that the 
mayor not only failed to personally lobby key Senate Republi¬ 
cans on behalf of the measure—reportedly because he feared 
alienating them before the city's budget had passed—but 
never even bothered to press Senate Republicans who had 
already publicly agreed to drop their opposition. 

AVP's Man Foreman points out that Dinkins has also 
neglected to implement the board of education's multicultural 
education policy, which indudes sexual orientation. Consider¬ 
ing that gay-bashers tend to be teenagers, if the cycle of hate 
passing from generation to generation—and fueling gay-bosh¬ 
ing along the way—could be interrupted by displacement of 
anti-gay role models In the schools, the cky conceivably could 
have a less burdensome bias-related violence problem only a 
few years in the future. In the same vein, Dinkins ooukl easily 
re-establish the multicultural education position in the mayoral 
office of educational services. Since taking office nine months 
ago, the position has not existed, either in the gay and lesbian 
office, where k used to be, or in educational services. 

All in all, Foreman concludes, skyrocketing crimes based 
on prejudice were met with ‘Inattention* and j "lethargic* 
response from Cky Hall. For a mayor who made his career 
through coalition politics, Dinkins has done shockingly little to 
address the needs of the lesbian and gay community. 

Pan of the equation that has allowed Dinkins to get away 
with so much chicanery is the fact that the mainstream media 
simply don't care about queen. Occasionally, an exceptionally 
brutal attack will make it into the dailies, but the numbing regu¬ 
larity of anti-gay and anti-lesbian assaults is not reflected any¬ 
where in the sensational istic accounts of the state of crime in 
the cky, leaving non-gay citizens with a sense that the siege 
mentality of lesbians and gay men is merely manufactured para¬ 
noia. Dinkins himself, by doing little more than alluding to anti- 
queer violence when he is reciting a laundry tar of bias-reined 
crimes, has substantially assisted in perpetuating the conspiracy 
of silence that surrounds anti-gay and anti-lesbian crime. 

If the stunning rise in rates of queer-bashing received 
nearly as much attention as, say, that Utah tourist-boy’s death, 
and if (he mayor's commitment to wiping out bias-related vio¬ 
lence were as urgent, and immediately quantifiable, as, say, his 


37 



Should Queers Shoot Back? 

by dire* anonymous quaere 


As lesbians and gay ran. dykes and 
fags, bulldaggers and queans—as 
quaere—we are not stee anywhere In tois 
world. We have nothing—not one square 
foot—that cannot be taken away by the 
lagged edge of a broken bottle. Our most 
cherished pleasures are stolen from us. As a 
dyke, l am not tetowed to touch who I want, 
desire when I want, fuck without feeing fear 
The damage done by Ws state of feat rage 
and sorrow Is constant and IrrerereUa. We 
ere never ouretevee—nwer. 

And we (mow so many fhends. people 
we care about and kwe deeply, who have 
been toreatoned, chased, maimed, beaten to 
wtthln an Inch of Mr Ms because toey are 
queer. The tact is that sooner or later, each 
one of us gets bashed—walking down a 
late-night street alone, or at some other 
place, some other time. I hate my tear of 
being ambushed by teenage boys who get 
off on bashing queers, and I hate my 
response to that fear There are moments 
when I hide my kfendty as a gay man— 
wafle taster; arms swinging, look tough to a 
'rear men—wt* Inside I feel the shame, 
humfltation and ssIMosttilng of a traitor. I 
am, at one and toe same tme. toe scared, 
little faggot they take me tor and my own 
betrayer because I am too scared to defend 
what I know to be true, which Is that their 
hatred for us Is toeiri and has nothing to do 
wtto toe reafly of our deelre, our bodtoe, ocr 
tribe. I know this troth with wary breath I 
Wee. but this knowtedga la no protection 
art wfl never change toe tact of toere being 

We heve no Idea of wto we might be 
If we were free of toe threat of phytecal vio¬ 
lence, let alone If our love for each other 
were supported In toe vrodd. In toe mttt of 
al this hatred, violence, killing and the 
naofect of our oommuntty, we have always 
refused to use to roe ourselves. We have 
baen above It In our driy befllewllh homo¬ 
phobia, we seem to have onty two choioes: 
One k to svwlow al toe insults, stay In toe 
closet, avoid our desire and let our tree 
sake* shrtoi slowly away irfl very Me Is 
left Or we can respond to every cutting 
dyke and fag comment with a hearty tuck 
you,* start swinging whan someone grabs 
us on tos street, Ides our lovers whanewr 


or Idled. We are forced to choose between a 
sudden, vtotent daato at toe hands of our tutors 
mf toe kvidtous, Mong murder of our sods. 
Quick or slow? We cannot live with these 
options; toey create a rage toad is too large to 

It is no wonder that we tom to tooughts 
of guns. Arming ourselves Is something we 
never dare to speak of, and yet we 
all have had fantasias of It—per¬ 
fect sal-defense, bloody revenge. 

But what is the actual really of 
these attacks against us? How do 
we Insure tost our weapons are 
not taken from us and turned 
against us? Must we all become 
expert shots and nvintibie fight¬ 
ers? Will guns save us? All we 
can know right now is that we wf 
stop at nothing to defend our¬ 
selves and our community. We 
have toe right to protect every¬ 
thing we love by any means neo- 
essary If someone toreatans you 
or touches you. do something 
unexpected: Knee him in toe bals 
and shout gouge out his eyes, 
tear off hia sen, torn rui art donl 
stop unti you find a brother or 
sister who can take cere of you 
We mow too much—our bodes 
know too much—to be destroyed. 

There are, of courea, many 
practical obstacles to procuring 
our safety trough toros. Our ene- 
mlas toe cope, the homophobes, 
the state, toe church, tos worid as 
ft Is—will always have more and bigger 
wagons fun we. and toey wfl teways be pro¬ 
tected by a po«c*, social and legal system 
founded on Modem, racism and homophobia. 
As an army, we may not win—at least not yet 
But perhaps « terrorists, guenfla ind silent 
secret murderers, we wil pose come debMat- 
Ing threat to toe toroee that oppreH us. Maybe 
we wfl wtn taster and die less If a few of us 
become assassins and martyrs. Maybe we 
can't cal tor riots, but we can certainly try to 
start them ourselves. Words donT start riots; 
rocks and broken bottles do. Mqbe toe most 
violent act we can Mid on toe enemy is to 
unleash our desire. What would happen If we 
fuckad each otoar in the streets, ki toe cfucfws. 


we seduced the queer children of public 
offices end kicked them In toe streets? Wb 
can no longer watt. Our Mbe ration it valu¬ 
able enough to do what is necessary to 
obtain It ImmedUtey. And » we do resort to 
violence as a vrey to survive, we must be 
prepend to protect one another wlto our Ms. 

The culture we heve bun in toe lace of 
centuries of vtotenca and hatred Is tostnony 
to our abflty, as a trtoe, to survto, but do 
not be deceived: TNe cutture—our ways of 
helping each other love and work and dream 
and c*e—this community, 
which Is all we know of 
oureelves, trembta6 on toe 
edge of extinction. Those 
who come after us may 
never even know of our 
existence. Lite uniter geno¬ 
cide demands sxtrema 
measures. Every day, we 
come closer and closer 
end doaar to acting on our 
fantasies of uMHon and 
revenge—shooting George 
and Barbara Bush with 
HIV bullets, killing cops 
with nightsticks ripped 
from their own gloved 
hands—as we let our- 
mMs teal toe fid extent of 
our suffering, unnecessary 
suffering kvfllcted by M- 
tulonsandlndMduflswho 
have power over our Me 
and um It only to Imple¬ 
ment our deaths. 

It to a terrifying rete- 
latlon, and yet the day 
may coma, drawn out of 
us by a future spent wit¬ 
nessing the deaths of those we love and 
cannot save, vtoen noting standi between 
us wd that ultimate act of fury—not awn 
the pleasure, won by a flelme of struggle, 
we take In our own desks wfl prevent us 
from progressing to tote acton. We rmy be 
acting In dasperebon-tor every assassin, 
avenger and terrorist Is Wed. tortured, put 
•way tor Be or executed—but we *1 te » 
be acting out of tatth. Your He Is more valu¬ 
able than mine, and If I cannot save your We, 
md »I cannot give my He tor yours, toan 
toe toes of you wfl make my fle unMbto, 
and I wfl oome. In time, to hate so much 
toose whose hatred has teksn toe Ight from 
your eyes tote I wfl heve no choice but to 



we damn wel please and face getting hurt In toe courtrooms, on TV? Or better yet whte I kfl toem-tt 1 have your courage.T 




desire to get che Zodiac 
shooter off the streets, 
the lesbian and gay 
community would un¬ 
doubtedly now be 

( faced with a far less 
grim situation. 

According to the 
J mayor's liaison to the 
j lesbian and gay com- 
o munity, Marjorie Hill 
£ (who told Out Week 
that she did not 'have 
the time to talk about such a complex 



subject*), Dinkins has apparently 
expressed his concern about anti-gay 
violence almost exclusively through her 
office. There have been several meet¬ 
ings with Police Commissioner Lee 
Brown to take up the topic of anti-gay 
violence, but the only pubiidy acknowl¬ 
edged substantive result of those meet¬ 
ings has been the promised resuscitation 
of the Mayor’s Police Council on Les¬ 
bian and Gay Issues. It is scheduled to 
have its first meeting under the Dinkins 
administration on Oct. 17. 


The Panthers' prowl through pre¬ 
dominantly gay and lesbian neighbor¬ 
hoods also has an effect on the per¬ 
formance of the cops because there is 
always the possibility that the Pan¬ 
thers will reach back into their com¬ 
munity-patrol heritage and emerge 
with arms. At this point, while guns 
may not be an answer that everybody 
endorses, the threat of guns may be 
part of that answer. The fact is that 
we need more attention paid to anti¬ 
gay bias crimes; the question of who 
will provide it remains outstanding. Y 


“Many thanks for 
helping us in a time 
of need. Rosie was a 
very important part of 
Richard’s life and 
knowing she had 
good care when 
needed was a comfort 



hr HTV+people 


inkins' multifaceted failures 
regarding this community are 
all the more frustrating and 
outrageous because of the 
tremendous support gay men 
and lesbians gave to his may- 
oral campaign just a year ago. Having 



only to see him disregard our interests 
again and again, it is now time to realize 
that he may have sold this constituency 
the Brooklyn Bridge. At best, Dinkins is 
a masterful politician, and since we 
know how to play that game too, per¬ 
haps the time has arrived for lesbians 
and gay men to begin battering the 
mayor with the kind of blistering public 
criticism that prods even uninterested 
officeholders into action. 


Meanwhile, the ris e a nd prolifera¬ 
tion—of the Pink Panthers gives hope 
that at some future date, the hatred 
against us will be stymied. While it is 
infuriating that we have had to amass our 
own resources to confront the terror of 
anti-gay and anti-lesbian assaults because 
the ciy agencies in whose province pub¬ 
lic safety should fall have consistently 
neglected this crisis, the fact that we have 
successfully organized a high-profile 
intervent i on force throws the lackadaisi¬ 
cal efforts of the police info high relief. 


(212)744-0842 


CMJ MUSIC MARATHON CONVENTION 

October 24 27 1990 « Ihc Vislo Hofei • New York City 


| You Won t 
See The 
Some Old 
Faces... 





sr Announced: Keynote Speakers 
and KRS-ONE of Boogie Down Productions 


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She has sharked 
and astounded critics 
and audiences around the 
worn!. And , vowing to perform her 
cvWlving M;is(|ii(‘ of flu* Red Dcsifli 
a mil the end of the AIDS crisis , 
Diamanda (ia/as once again 
brings her chilling nln/ations 
to Sew York. 




MOURNING 

BECOMES 

DIAMANDA 

by Robert Hilferty 


nother of those 
sweltering July 
days in New 
York. It was 
1988—seven 
years into the 
AIDS crisis, but 
only 18 months 
since President 
Reagan first ut¬ 
tered the name of the disease—and here 
was avant-garde singer Diamonds Galas 
taking to a podium at the ninth annual 
New Music Seminar in the air-condi¬ 
tioned audtorium of the Marrioc Marquis 
Hotel. She had something to say 

'I've just completed a trilogy that is 

sons with AIDS who are now living and 
dying in Cadaiacs, in hotel rooms, cruci¬ 
fied h hospitals, and are everywhere you 
don't think they are," she told the audi¬ 
ence. "And let me tel! you something 
efec WhiJe you’re sitting here, having a 
good time, think about somebody who’s 
lying in vomit bags, lying in perspiration 
and in dirty old sheets. ..And when you 
aren’t too busy eating pussy and getting 
autographs, you might go to an ACT UP 
meeting tomorrow night There’s a little 
bit of education for all of you homo¬ 
phobes, far all of you impotents, for all 
of you cowards, for all of you ass-lidcen, 
for ail of you motherfuckers—but that 
would be too nice for you." 

The crowd of 2,000 was first 
shocked into silence. Wtthin moments, 
however, Galas was bedded and booed. 
But die refused to leave the stage and 
finished Iter speech. 

The historic lecture, which Galas 



later entitled ‘New Correlations in Male 
Heterosexual Impotence and Homopho¬ 
bia," was a response to years of resis¬ 
tance she’d encountered from the music 
industry since she began her "plague 
mass' Masque of the Red Death . in 1984. 
the first major musical performance work 
about the AIDS crisis And though much 
has happened since. Galas is still often 
the target of critics who balk at an activist 
response. As recently as January 1989, a 
London Tines reviewer wrote: There is 
no point in fighting a perverse situation 
like AIDS with the perverted music of 
Gabs. I myself have several friends wth 
AIDS, and I admire and almost envy their 
resignation." 

Galas laughs wickedly. "My so- 
called artistic and business associates 
tried to discourage me. They were hop¬ 
ing that the whole thing would blow 
over, that I would become more poise 
Well, the music world is foil of cowards, 
idiots, impotence and homophobia In 
the face of that level of resistance to my 
intuition, that attempt to sabotage my 
vision. I've had to say, The Mike Tyson 
of the voice does not waste time talking 
about bullshit." 

And how. Committed to the voice as 
the ultimate performance instrument, 
Gabs goes beyond the limits of tradition¬ 
al vocal e x pre ssi on. As-if her natural bd 
canto range of three and a half octaves 
were not enough. Dcamanda has created 
a superhuman vocabulary of screams, 
screeches, ululations and whispers. 
Morcvoer, she frequently filters and 
amplifies her voice through sophisticated 
electronic digital processing, creating a 
universe of vocal beings. 


‘My voice was given to me as an 
instrument of inspiration for my friends 
and a tool for the torture and destruction 
of my enemies," she explains. 

In Masque of the Red Death, Gabs 
makes dear who her friends and ene¬ 
mies are. Committed to performing 
Masque until the end of the epidemic, 
Gabs has dedicated the work to people 
who are HIV-positive, PWARCs and 
PWAs who fight to stay alive in a hostile 
environment that teds them on a daily 
basis that they shall most certainly 
die—an environment that offers disgust¬ 
ing pity and pacifying lies to persuade 
the diseased man to desist from fighting 
and participate instead in he own burial; 
that offers the constant threat of manda¬ 
tory testing, reporting and quarantine, 
and that offers slow torture and continu¬ 
ing design of death, or genocide, through 
a failure to act responsMy in a medical 
emergency." 

Her work does not stop at her 
voice. Gabs is on the streets and in the 
hospitals every day. As a member of ACT 
UP/NY, she was arrested in St Patrick’s 
Cathedral in December. In her affidavit to 
the New York City Criminal Court she 
stated: "This ‘house of compassion’ 
impedes the work of people who, as 
modern-day saints, are trying to work 
together to find a solution to this epidem¬ 
ic. It impedes their work by lobbying 
against the progress of AIDS research 
and concentrating oo a Levs icon witch 
hunt of immoral cau*es.._Let us pray in 
word and in deed for the afflicted." Her 
enemies are those who regard AIDS as 
divine retribution, the witch-hunters, the 
gay-bashers and those who do nothing 

O. U 4 .r ST. IMS OUnMIK 41 




“/ developed an extreme 
technique to ride the 
outer limits. ” 


to fight the disease. Because Masque 
•charts the geography of a plague men¬ 
tality," Galas refers to the Masque trilogy 
CIbe Divine Punishment, Saint of the Ptt 
and YouMust Be Certain of the DeviQ as i 
-plague mass.* 

The aspect that most concerns me,' 
she explains, *ts how people arc being 
treated—the tragedy of the outcast ' 


day theater pieces. At the suggestion of 
Luc Theodor of the Living Theatre, she 
performed in mental institutions, 
singing with her bade to the patients. 
These vocal Improvisations gave birth 
to a visceral, emotional, wordless lan¬ 
guage of shrieks, screams and whispers 
which are an integral port of her work. 
"I started without any vocal training,* 


emergent art form." Shamanistic rather 
than operatic, ritualistic rather than arty, 
Galas comes from a sonic world which 
b pretextual and muitUrnguisitic. In all 
of her performances, Galas 'speaks in 
tongues.* an hysterical and frenzied bar¬ 
rage of nonverbal utterances and frag¬ 
ments from six languages. This giosao- 
Lalia e x presses a state of mind bom of 


inspired by Antonin Artaud. According 
to Galas, *Hb theater of cruelty” was 
about painful rigor, a piercing of the 
eyeballs to see the new." 


T he aesthetic and politi¬ 
cal roads which have 
lead to the creation of 
Masque came out of her 
personal and artistic 
experience. Galas' voice 
has always explored 
states of human suffer¬ 
ing and isolation, as in Pancptikon and 


skiers. *1 have always dealt with the con¬ 
cept of a black box, in which a person b 
being interrogated, which represents 
extreme claustrophobia. I've dealt with 
the issues of schizophrenia and the tor¬ 
ture of political criminals,* she says. 
Indeed, Galas identifies with witches and 
heretics, with those who have been stig¬ 
matized by society, those who challenge 
the world with new ideas and new ways 
of being. Never before has her music 




«s was bom in 
San Diego to Greek immi¬ 
grants. A music prodigy, she 
performed Beethoven s first 
Piano Concerto with die Son 
Diego Symphony at age 14. 
But she didn't groom herself 
for a performing career via 
conventional routes. Instead, she spent 
some time in San Francisco playing jazz 
piano and in Oakland's Genet-like 
underworld living and working with 


by the name Madame Zina Her poly¬ 
morphous^ perverse lifestyle In this 
drug-frenzied demimonde came to a 
grinding halt when she was hospitalized. 
*1 don't want to go into it,* she says, 
wincing, all at once reflecting the pain 
she endured during that time. 

After returning to San Diego and 
playing with a few Cuban dance bands. 
Galas gave a series of performances 
which mark the roots of her present- 


. I developed an extreme 
technique to ride the outer limits, the 
outer limits of the soul. I called these 
wordless songs 'intravenal.' Something 
so visceral occurs before the formation 
of words. They are blood screams." 

Shocked by vocal tapes of these asy¬ 
lum performances, Vmko Globokar. the 
Yugoslavian avant-garde composer, invit¬ 
ed Galas to Paris to perform the lead 
role of hb opera IM Jour Comme (Me 
Autre, a work based upon the true story 
of a Turkish woman arrested and tor¬ 
tured to death for treason. Later, Galas 
returned to Paris for performances of her 
solo works Wild Women With Steak 
Knives and Tragoutbia apo to Alma 
Exoun Fonos (Song from the Blood of 
Those Murdered) in the underground 
Theatre Gerard Phfllippe Saint-Denis 
The ensuing radical and idiosyncrat¬ 
ic c ar eer , which has brought Galas inter¬ 
national fame, defies category. She shies 
away from the term ‘performance artist* 
'No one else does what I do. I’m an 


theater seemed so immediately relevant 
as during the AIDS crisb. 

Perhaps even more so because 
persona] tragedy permeates Masque. 
Philip-Dmitri Galas, her playwright 
brother (the creator of Mona Rogers), 
died from AIDS-related complications 
in 1986 during the composition of Saint 
of the Pit 'I found the poems of Nerval 
and Corbiere In a book of Philip’s 
which he gave me two weeks before he 
died, and I recorded them in Berlin 
immediately after hb death,* she recalls. 
‘The horror of his death and (his] 
departure from my life do not dimin¬ 
ish—they increase like the nightmares 
of anyone who has witnessed a homi¬ 
cide.* In the performance, describing 
the government’s inaction during the 
AIDS crisis, she screams from a pulpit: 
"Don’t believe the lies! Acquired 
Immune Deficiency Syndrome b hocra- 
cklef* Galas recalls her brother's death 
with the crucifixion piece, *CrtsD Aveu- 
gjf ('Blind Man’s Cry* by Tristan Cor- 





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TRY A LITTLE 
TENDERNESS 
'Feeling 
extaordinarily 
romantic! Must be 
the weather, the 
cod. crisp days 
that makes me 
think of us in New 
Hampshire, my 
tender kisses on 
your lashes, your 
nose, your cheeks, 
your lips." Writer 
doing an article on 
lesbian romance. 
Seeks thoughtful, 
intelligent 
lesbians for dates 
and/or subjects. 
Outweek Box 3395 

WOMAN ON THE 
VERGE 
of sexual 
discovery. This 
GBF. 26 is anxious 
to explore the joys 
and unending 
variations of 
lesbian sex. Tel 
me about your 
most futfillable 
sexual odessy 
and we’ll compare 
notes, yes? 
Outweek Box 3394 

NEW ATTITUDE 
It could be a 
manic phase, but I 
feel good about 
my body, my 
life., .about 
Lesbian creativity, 
romance and sex. 
I’m a cute, smart, 
vduptuous 
twentysomething 
dread-locked dyke 
very comfortable 
In her own skin. 
I’ve had the best 


summer of my life 
and I’d like to 
continue this trend 
in the fafl. So if 
you’re a non¬ 
smoking lesbian 
who sees •’doing 
the right thing' as 
a personal choice 
rather than a 
political 
imperative...if 
■political 
correctness' has 
not thwarted your 
creativity or sense 
of style, tell me as 
much ol the truth 
about yourself as 
you can bear. 

Ciaol Outweek 
Box 3393 

SWEET YOUNG 
THING 

Objectify me. go 
ahead. 

Take me dancing. 
Feed me. 

Put your hands on 
me. 

I could be tempted 
to do the same 
Outweek Box 3367 

DOWN-TO-EARTH 

Cute. GWF.36 
(36?? when did 
that happen?!) 

Into humor, 
music, theatre, art. 
politics, animals 
(& the list goesjw 
& on!) seeks GF 
who is kind, funny 
& just plain NICE. 
(Anybody like that 
out there 
anymore?!) 
Outweek Box 3357 

BEAM ME UP 
SCOTTY... 


Attractive, 
funloving. vibrant 
GWF 35 seeks 
attractive, 
sensitive upbeat 
funny fern who 
takes care of her 
body & enjoys 
learning more 
about herself 
Looking to share 
meaningful 
conversation, 
dinner, movies, 
laughter, lots of 
fun & the 
excitement of a 
new friend. No 
drugs, butches. 
bi’s. or smokers. 
Send a picture & a 
letter. Outweek 
Box 3348 

YOU GOTTA HAVE 
FRIENDS! 

This Gemini 
professional 30 
Something GW 
Butch is searching 
for antiqued style 
Platon tic 
friendship only! 
Love Bette, 

Stones. & Ja zz. 
animals & their 
rights, museums, 
comedy nature, P- 
Town! You’re not 
bi. into drugs, 
alcohol. 

dishonesty or any 
otherb 

inare behavior. 
Outweek Box 3344 


Lr, 

ATTRACTIVE, 
affectionate, grad 
student, enjoys 
Joanna Russ, 
politics, yoga, and 
chocolate. ISO an 


educated lesbian, 
happy with 
herself, for 
friendship & more. 
I’l share my heart, 
mind, and body 
with the right 
woman - what 
about you? 

Outweek Box 3339 

UPSTATE NY 
COUPLE. 

Wife bisexual, 
husband 

potentially bi, both 
heavy, early 40’s, 
are seeking a 
heavyset bisexual 
couple (man & 
woman) of 
compatible age & 
interests to share 
good times and 
build a 

relationship. Write 
Bill & Bonnie. POB 
62 Little Genesee, 
NY 144754 ore 
all :(716) 928- 
2692 

FRIDAY 

SEPTEMBER 7TH. 
Wet was the word. 
You were wet. 
dripping with 
sweat. The 
windows were 
fogged behind the 
dancer who was 
wet and wild. The 
gyrations of your 
body made me 
wet my lips. I 
thought, why in a 
place like the Clit 
Club did I not have 
the courage to ask 
you to 

dance? I didn’t 
even have my shirt 
on. I must have 

<*~> lut a 








• removed my nerve 
» as well. You axe a 

I sexy black Venus 

► with two small 

• nose rings and 

► half shaved hair. 

• Cute and curly 

I braids crown you 

► and hang over 

[ your brown eyes. 

, We finally spoke 
; around 3:30 AM 
! and you 
said your name. I 
was watching your 
mouth move, but 
there were no 
sounds. Was I in a 
dare or were you 
really sticking your 
tongue down my 
throat? How come 
we didn't 
exchange phone 
numbers? Meet 
me at the Qit Club 
next time. I want 


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. PROFESSIONAL. 

* confident, secure. 

* intelligent, good 
> humored, warm 

| and caring are just 
, a few of my 
’ attributes I am 
! outgoing and have 
an appealing zest 
for life. I enjoy 
watching and 
playing tennis. I 
am very interested 
in music and have 
keen appreciation 
for the fine arts. I 
enjoy going out 
but also enjoy 
quiet evenings at 


NYC GAY & LESBIAN 
ANTI-VIOLENCE 
PROJECT 

( 212 ) 
807-0197 
24 Hour Hotline 


seeking a female 
of sr milar qualities 
who, like me. 
appreciates mind 
stimulating 
activities, exists 
independently rs 
an honest effective 
communicator, 
respects and loves 


• EMPOWERED, 

• BEAUTIFUL. 

• SINGLE. 

. BLACK 

• female - 22, who 

| dances to the beat 

> of her own drum. 

> seeks a caring 

} mature, informed. 

• secure female 

I who knows how 

> to communicate 
| and wishes to 

, cherish a 
| relationship built 
| on a foundation of 
honesty, trust, 
mutual respect, 
humor and 
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Write 

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NY. NY 10011. 

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photo. 


teresting and has 
adynamic 
personality. Please 


photo/phone/note 
to Post Office Box 
30327 NY. NY 
10011 Attn: OY 
alcoholics, 
smokers, 

substance abusers 
need not respond. 


* SOMEWHERE IN 
I TIME 

, This GWF age 23 
1 will meet her 
| LONGTIME 
COMPANION. TNs 
could happen 
while cruising the 
BEACHES in NJ. 
where she lives or 
walking LA 
STRADA in NY. 
where she works. 
We could get 










































































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me a line! U plan 
our first datel PO 
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• interested in a 
J nonaddictive 

• fnendship/relation 
| ship with an older. 
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» sexy, voluptuous 

| woman who 

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, passionate 

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emotionally stable 
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about life need 
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It was a lovely Ohio spring evening in 
1973. We’d had a dinner of Salisbury 
steak, com on the cob and salad with too 
much vinegar, the way Dad liked 1 We sat 
around the TV watching The Brady Bunch 
My brother, sister and I giggled at a few 
moments, but for the most part the 
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ie bait .—o 


i m Proven 


pattern of post-60s vertical stripes, were 
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balls in those alluring jeans as he entered, 
exited, sat on his bed and cajoled his 
younger brothers, who had not yet 
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"Mom?" I called out. 

"Yes, Jimmy?* Mother, in her 
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sexy ample legs. 

"Oh, don’t be so queer," my brother 
moaned 

I lunged at him. spiling his bowl of 
popcorn, and punched him in the face. 
My sister laughed and screeched. My 


ano 


parents screamed as he and I rolled 
about on the floor. I wanted to poke my 
brother’s eyes out Instead I settled for 
just a few punches, until he punched me. 

Screaming and crying, we were 
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fighting. Being the baby of the family, 
I got to be exiled to my parent's 
bedroom. I calmed down, took in the 
smells of my mother and father's 
scents, their clothes, perfumes. I 
hated my brother for knowing so 
obviously what I was. I talked to my 
parents. 

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the loudest, tightest vertically 
striped bell'bottoms they had at the 
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gasp of a man condemned to a lonely 
death. Galas' voice alternates between 
morbid alto groans and high-pitched 
screams. In the upcoming performance 
at Sl John die Divine, she will conclude 
with this dense and moving song 

She sees herself as a medium 
through which the dead can speak. 
‘Masque is an ex p re ssio n of the anger of 
the dead,* she says. "The dead are not 
nonexistent. When I think of Philip, I 
think of him screaming with anger, 
demanding revenge. U»r who have died 
shall never rest in peace.* 

In the third pan of Masque, You 
Must Be Certain of the Devil, she speaks 
with guns. Her mourning becomes 
militant: an uncompromising call to arms 
in which she draws upon the Greek 
Maniot tradition of dirge-singing where 
mourning becomes a sworn oath of 
vengeance. ‘Guns are important,* she 
says. ‘Liberals and politically correct peo¬ 
ple arc terrified of violence and complain 
about it ex post facto.* in “Double Band 
Prayer* she sings: "The dogs have come 
today/The dogs have come to stay ./It's 
time to get your gun oul/And drive the 
dogs away.’ And in * Malediction,' she 
targets enemies: The arms that you cut 
off that Sunday night are the arms that 
point me to the red eyes of the Pente¬ 
costal killers and the black eyes of the 
Roman Catholic killers and the blue eyes 
of the pinhead skinhead killers. ..The 
arms that you cut off that Sunday night 
are the arms that wait between my TV 
and my gun....* 

ast August, the Italian press 
denounced Galas' performance as 
"blasphemous,* not only because 
of her ‘Sono LAnticbrtstcf texts 
but also because of her bald dec¬ 
laration, ‘Give me sodomy, or 
give me death.* Though she was 
arrested inside St. Patrick's 
Cathedral last year, Galas has no qualms 
about her upcoming performance at St. 
John the Divine, a church which she says 
has been in the forefront of combating 
AIDS with nonjudgmental compassion. 
Still, she acknowledges that it's the 
first time she's performed in a church, 
and that it was not an easily made deci¬ 
sion: The promoters were afraid of pre¬ 
senting me in church because my work 
is perceived as Satanic, which it is. But at 


Since Masque is an ongoing pro¬ 
ject, Galas reshapes her masterpiece 
each time. At St. John’s, the upcoming 
performance of Masquewii include the 
premiere of There Arc No More Tick¬ 
ets to the Funeral* (which was present¬ 
ed in part during the San Francisco 
AIDS Conference). Perhaps the most 
riveting and startling sequence, 'Funer¬ 
al* is an unrelenting indictment of the 
voyeur and his emotional distance, a 
scathing attack on the cowardice and 
complicity of those ‘who conspire to 


lead the afflicted to their graves.’ But, 
as Galas' voice booms: There are no 
more tickets to the funeral. The funeral 
is crowded.'T 

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performed by Dianumda Galas at the 
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<tip in private donations. 

Altogether, 70 percent of GMHC's 
operating budget comes from private 
funding sources, with the bulk of that 
money generated at special fund-raising 
events like the annual AIDS walk. How¬ 
ever, approximately 14 percent of the 
next largest source of income for die or¬ 
ganization, Individual contributions, 
comes from direct-mail solicitation, and 
while the profits generated by recent 
mailings hold steady, acquisitions of new 
danon to the agency have been down. 

"'We are going to have to weather a 
number of trends in the future,* Burris 
predicted. The "90s are not going to be 
like the BOs The economy has already 
turned down, and that could very dra¬ 
matically affect our abilities to fundraise. 
Even in the corporate sector, on which 
some of these events are relatively de¬ 
pendent, it’s getting much hander * 

Anticipating a leveling off and then 
a decline in public funding for AIDS, 
GMHC has purposely reduced its re¬ 
liance on government support to about 
only 20 percent of the agency's budget. 
Some advocates see this decision as a 
poor strategic move, arguing that the 
leviathan tax-funded US social service 
establishment, at least in theory, should 
provide these same services anyway. 
Larry Kramer, a founder of GMHC who, 
in recent years, has become one of the 
agency's most vocal critics, described its 
funding stance as awkward. They arc 
being funded by a system that believes 
they are taking care of everything,* the 
playwright told OuSXReek 'But the agen¬ 
cy is very weak in holding the system 
accountable to what is ours by right. 
GMHC is. in essence, asking the world 
to donate money to GMHC to provide 
services that the taxpayer has already 
paid for.* But while the decision to sur¬ 
render an appropriate portion of public 
money may imply a lack of commitment 
to advocacy, it also means that GMHC is 
not forced to rely on the whims of 
politicians to keep its services top-notch. 

On a policy level, GMHC has re¬ 
portedly recently adopted a lobbying 
strategy that decisively moves away 
from the moral-obligation arguments for 
public funding that dominated its early 
applications to the government for fi¬ 
nancial support in the fight against 
AIDS. Instead, advocates are increasingly 


bending the cars of elected officials with 
smart economic analysis chat reflects the 
shift away from the credit-card mentality 
of the BOs If you spend $10 now on ed¬ 
ucation, prevention and basic health 
care, the reasoning goes, you wont have 
to spend $1,000 later bailing out the 
health care industry and carrying the 
weight of hundreds of thousands of fi¬ 
nancially devastated PWAs. 

GMHC and the Gay Community 

GMHC is, without a doubt, going to 
have to fight harder for donations from 
individuals. But the organization Is also 
strapped with what one observer diplo¬ 
matically r e fe rred to as a "public relations 
problem.* Responding to years of 
scathing criticism for its reputation as an 
dxist, gay-white-male organization in the 
business of fighting an epidemic that has 
increasingly affected a disproportionate 
number of low-income African Ameri¬ 
cans and Latinos, GMHC has made a 
concerted effort to draw more women 
and people of color with AIDS into the 
matrix of its services and the tanks of its 
staff and volunteers. But it is now faced 
w«h the delicate issue of assuring its af¬ 
fluent donor base of primarily gay white 
men that it will continue to provide ser¬ 
vices to gay white PWAs in a comfortable 
and supportive environment. 

‘Because we have made a special 
commitment to the gay community, the 
majority of people who work here are 
gays,' added Carisa Cunningham, a 
GMHC spokesperson who, along with 
colleagues Geoffrey Knox, Tommy 
Thompson and Denise Dalton, is among 
a growing number of heterosexuals in 
high-ranking positions at the agecncy. 

At present, while the percentage 
of gay men GMHC serves has steadily 
decreased over the past three years, its 
caseload is still overwhelmingly gay. 
Similarly, though the numbers of 
African-American and Latino clients 
have increased substantially since 
1987. the majority of GMHC dtents are 
white. And though the number of 
women with AIDS who seek assistance 
through GMHC has almost doubled, 
there are still more than nine men at 
the agency for every one woman. 

GMHC has found other effective 
ways of reaching out to people of col¬ 
or and women with AIDS, too, most 
notably by deploying technical teams 
to assist AIDS-scrvicc organizations in 


communities of color to set up ser¬ 
vices that parallel GMHC programs but 
are specifically designed to address 
the needs of those agencies' dienteie. 
This strategy assists other community- 
based organizations, like the Minority 
Task Force on AIDS, to avoid the pit- 
fails of starting programs from scratch. 
And It also provides GMHC with an 
opportunity to contribute to infrastruc¬ 
tural community-building, an effort 
that has proven necessary to effective¬ 
ly fight the whole of social problems 
AIDS has so starkly illuminated. 

This is all uncharted territory,* ob¬ 
served Geoffrey Knox, chief spokes¬ 
person for GMHC, referring to the trial- 
and-error method that has characterized 
much of AIDS social-service develop¬ 
ment. That's the real challenge.* ▼ 

FUND 

Fund has been on. ‘By the time Rob 
Brading inherited all of this,* Mickens 
said pointedly, "no one knew how bad 
it had gotten.* 

The final factor Mickens identified 
in the conspiracy of circumstances that 
shut the Fund down was what he 
termed ‘fractious bickering* in the 
community over the events going on 
inside the Fund. He bitterly criticized 
this magazine, which broke the first 
story on the upheavals at the Pund, for 
fanning the flames of contention by 
continuing to print stories about the 
Ftind's problems. 

But other observers, inducting for¬ 
mer staff members, who have closely 
watched the Fund as it has attempted 
to get its programs back in operation, 
think that the closing of the Fund was 
inevitable. *The way the Fund was 
being run, it was bound to close,* 
remarked Reggie Harris, who left the 
Fund In the employee walkout over a 
breakdown of the Fund's operations. 
•No one really wanted it to go out of 
business because we need that ser¬ 
vice,* continued Harris, who now 
works as the administrative assistant at 
Out trank magazine. 

At this point, board co-chair 
Wilson disclosed, the Fund is 
exploring the option of selling the 
Fund’s two most prominent pro¬ 
grams, the Crisisline and the Re¬ 
source Center, to an extant lesbian 
and gay organization. T 




Life’s little ironies: 
The current 
P«nthou»o bus 
shelter ad (left) 
usee two gey men 
to advertise a 
publication so 
overtly geared to 
straight males, 
while the Catholic 
Church has hung out 
a shingle for a 
homeless shelter on 
East 4th Street 
which they have 
called Mary- 
house—and, as W 
that weren’t ironic 
enough, it’s just a 
couple of doors 
down from Quentin 
Crisp’s place. (Then 
again, this might not 
be that ironic. 
Perhaps Maryhouse 
Is where they send 
Father Ritter and his 
kind after they’re 
defrocked.) 


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As this westbound train hurtles through 
the darkness, and I nervously dutch a hatbox 
and a box of fudge in addition to my own 
battered baggage, I know that I am reminded 
of something. But what’ Of course, my first 
impulse is to say, ‘Part Four of Jacques God- 
bout's masterful story of rupture, Le Couteau 
sur la Table" except that that particular train 
in that particular talc was traveling east. Per¬ 
haps, then, I'm recalling the opening chapter 
of M.T. Kelly's I Do Remember the Fall, where 
the train was certainly headed west but only 
so far as Elk Brain, Saskatchewan. Perhaps, 
though, I’m not. At any rate, this situation 
feels mighty familiar, which is more than can 
be said about anything back home. 

Back home—and even now, after all 
these years, I am not entirely comfortable referring to Man¬ 
hattan as borne, one does not as, Joan Didion observed, 
•live* at Xanadu—in Manhattan, the familiar was slipping 
away at an astonishingly rapid rate. To give an example: 
When I arrived at my office on the 51st floor of the Out- 
Week building one pearly Tuesday morning last week, I was 
met by yet another woman, the third in as many months, 
who identified herself as Edelweiss, the personnel liaison, 
but who, from a certain angle, looked like Gwen Verdon, 
the musical comedy star. I started to apologize for not 
awarding the engraved pastry marble to her 'aunt"'s entry 
In the now-defunct Annual Summer Fudge Competition, but 
she simply shrugged and said, ‘Life.’ Then she invited me 
into my own office (where the furniture had apparently 
been rearranged during the night) and told me that she'd 
come to discuss my travel plans. Noting my confusion, 
Edelweiss said that she'd been informed by my editor that I 
intended to take a short trip, and she wanted to explain the 
OutWeek vacation policy (which turns out to be nonexis¬ 
tent) as well as to give me some travel brochures. While my 
editor had, in fact, suggested a little rest, preferably some 
place quite very far away. I’d not really given the matter 
much consideration. Now Edelweiss pressed some pam¬ 
phlets into my hand and left, humming *We Both Reached 
for the Gun." Only then did I notice that the portrait of 
Kendall Morrison which usually hung on the wall next to 
where my desk used to be had been replaced with an 
almost faultless reproduction of David’s The Death of Marat 
(except this Marat was holding a copy of my column in his 
lifeless hand). The telephone rang at that moment, and the 
caller whispered, "Aber etwas feblf and hung up. 

That evening. I went 'Dining Out!' at the Berck-Plage 
Restaurant, where electrifyingly colored sherbets were 
scooped from the freeze by pale girls. My friends Alvin and 
Earl did not show up (I learned later that Alvin had 


thought, mistakenly, that it was a fast 
day), but Johann, the pianist from the 
revolving cocktail lounge of the Marriott 
Marquis Hotel, did unexpectedly sit 
down at my table. I expressed surprise, 
and he said, after ordering the macker¬ 
el, that he'd come to discuss my travel 
plans. He went on to say that he'd 
heard once again from my old school 
chum Julian, and it was now imperative 
that 1 go to see him. I tried, once more, 
to make Johann understand that 1 don't 
know anybody named Julian, but he 
refused, as always, to listen. He 
Instructed me to examine carefully the 
brochures I'd obtained from Edelweiss 
and to make arrangements to go to the 
second place: 'But you will not go to the second place. 
Instead I shall meet you at the train station and give you 
your new directions.* In vain, I attempted to tell Johann 
that I really wasn't planning on taking a vacation, that other 
people were forcing this decision on me. He merely said: 
*You have already grievously failed the community once by 
refusing to deliver our message. It would be inadvisable to 
disappoint us a second time. Remember, please, to bring 
the packages—the hatbox and the fudge—you were given 
three weeks ago.* He left fust as the bill was brought to the 
tabic, along with some black and green lozenges. (The 
meal, by the by, was superb, but that discussion belongs to 
some other occasion.) 

1 did not, of course, leave town right away, but 
other events, which could be taken as somehow sinis¬ 
ter, helped convince me that this might be a good time 
to get out of the city for a little while. For example, my 
videocassette of Torch Song was switched with a copy 
of Torch Song Trilogy. The furniture was completely 
removed from my office during the lunch interval. And 
finally, when the Contributing Writers Grievance Com¬ 
mittee phone-tree called three times within 48 hours to 
notify me of a demonstration, a community forum and 
a $200-a-plate fund-raiser, I packed my sweaters and 
my medication, grabbed the hatbox and the fudge and 
took a taxi straight to Grand Central Station, where 
Johann was patiently waiting at the newsstand. 

The idea that this journey will in some way benefit die 
community does allay certain of my apprehensions. But I 
do not know where exactly, other than westward, I am 
headed on this train. I do not know who this Julian is 
whom I am supposed to meet. All I do know is that when I 
reach the border. I am to open the candy box and wear the 
hat. Everything else, so they tell me, will be made apparent 
in its own wise. The fudge, by the by, is a bit gritty.▼ 



By Bradley Ball 





[ hat the fuck Is 
going on? Are 
we in denial 
(once again)? 

Looking the other way? 

Accepting the reality of what’s happening around us 
because “that's just the way things are"? LETTING THESE 
BASTARDS SHIT ALL OVER US? 

I do think so, girls and boys. 

The column that was planned for this week was 
bumped because, while walking around the other night, I 
found myself flying off into one of those rages—the kind 
that turns me from a happy-go-lucky sort into a screaming 
monster and makes me wish that I had a fucking word pro¬ 
cessor right there so that I could get all of this shit OUT OP 
MY SYSTEM AND DOWN 
ONTO PAPER, DAMN IT! (It 
happens a lot. This time the 
scary, painful metamorphosis 
occurred as I was entering the 
video store to return a couple 
of really bad movies, which, 
admittedly, had probably set 
the stage for the anger that 
overtook me.) 

I ran home in a tizzy, 
ripped off my leather, cleared 
the keyboard and went off... 

...WAKE THE PUCK UP, 

PEOPLE! We are being bashed 
on the streets! KILLED! BLUD¬ 
GEONED! MURDERED! SHOT1 
STABBED! ASSAULTED! BEAT¬ 
EN! GOUGED! SLASHED! 

ATTACKED! SLAUGHTERED! 

And all of us—ALL OP 
US—somewhere inside, think 
we deserve this. After all, we're 
fags and dykes. And as we 
were taught, that means we're 
freaks of nature —queen Who 
could blame the normal people 
for beating us up? For killing 
us? And even if attacking soci¬ 
ety's less-fortunate is a wrong 
thing to do, there's no reason 
that anyone should make a big 
deal of it, right? I mean, there 
are so many more important 
kinds of people being victim¬ 
ized during this nasty New 
York crime wave—business 
executives, tourists, children. 

Who could blame the media for 
forgetting about us, even 
though we are the NUMBER- 
ONE group targeted in bias 



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crimes right this moment, 
according to our own 
police department? 

Yes. we literally sit 
around on the telephone 
saying to each other: “Mary was attacked last rught .Yeah, 
stabbed. It’s terrible....Uh, huh . Of course, it wasn't in the 
papers....There was nothing about it on television, 
either....Yeah, well, you know, no one cares about gays. 
What are ya gonna do?...Yeah, that’s how it is.* And then 
we proceed, on with our lives until our next friend, lover or 
co-worker retells a horrible story. Perhaps some of us even 
just look the other way. After all, we’ve got too many 
other things to do. Maybe we can sort of get caught up In 
our lives, make ourselves real busy and—presto! This honor 
will magically go away, right? 
And even we, in the gay media, 
are not immune to an eerie blast 
attitude and a gross desenritiza- 
tion that begins to occur when 
one has heard of bashing after 


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BUT WHEN THE PUCK 
ARE WE ALL GOING TO DO 
SOMETHING ABOUT IT? 
When will we get on top of the 
dry government? When are we 
going to demand that the 
media uncover the truth about 
what is happening? Why are 
we just sitting around staring at 
each other with dour looks on 
our faces? 

QUEERS. THERE IS A 
FUCKING GUN ON THE 
COVER OF THIS MAGAZINE. 
A GUNS! This is what it’s come 
down to. ARE YOU REALLY 
READY FOR THAT? It's abso¬ 
lutely chilling! 

Meanwhile, your comatose 
mayor Isn't even doing the 
measly bit he could do: give lip 
service to this epidemic of 
hate. No, not only Is Dinkins 
not loudly and publicly con¬ 
demning what's happening, 
but—at the height of what is 
truly a grave, horrific crisis of 
crime, disproportionately 
affecting us—our “liaison to the 
gay and lesbian community* is 
not lighting a fire under the 
mayor’s ass. Marjorie Hill, your 
honeymoon is over. The ball is 
rolling. WHAT THE FUCK ARE 
YOU DOING? 


47 




Every time I turn around, another 
friend, another person I love, has been 
brutally and senselessly attacked. How 
many more grotesque stories will we 
have to endure? How many more 
bloodied people do we have to take to 
the hospital? HOW MANY MORE 
TIMES WILL WE WAKE UP IN PAIN 
AFTER HAVING SEEN A BAT CRASH 
AGAINST OUR OWN HEADS? 

The number of reported violent 
crimes against queers has soared 
beyond belief—up 107 percent so far 
this year in New York City! And only a 
fraction of the anti-gay bias crimes 
occurring are actually being reported to 
the police. How I deduce that is sim¬ 
ple: Of those crimes reported, I some¬ 
how always se e m to know the victim 
or have friends who know the victim 
(odd in a city where there are upwards 
of a million lesbians and gay men, 
wouldn’t you say?). The reason is that 
the people reporting the crimes are 
almost always activists—the type of 
individuals whom I tend to know and 
who of course would report an anti¬ 
gay assault targeting them. If so many 
people in the small activist queer com¬ 
munity are being attacked, how many 
in the larger lesbian and gay communi¬ 
ty are savagely victimized every day 
and—especially in the case of more 
doseted types—are simply not report¬ 
ing it? 

But reported or not, OUR MEDIA 
ARE NOT DOING THEIR JOB. People 
are being beaten and murdered. AN 
ATTACK IS OCCURRING ALMOST 
EVERY SINGLE DAY1 Where are the 
headlines? The editorials? The New 
York Times op-ed pieces’ The explo¬ 
sive, if exploitative, television news 
spots? Nothing. Not a fucking thing. 
PEOPLE. WE ARE BEING BLUD¬ 
GEONED ON THE STREETS, AND WE 
ARE SITTING AROUND ACCEPTING 
THE FACT THAT THE STRAIGHT 
WORLD DOESN'T GIVE A SHIT And 
that’s what they’d like us to 
do—blindly accept our own extermi¬ 
nation, much as they've tried to instill 
the same demented mentality in us 
with regard to the AIDS crisis. 

Racial violence and antisemitism 
become front-page news. That is the 
stuff that sells papers—for days and 
days and days! Boycotts of Korean gro¬ 
ceries? Great! Blacks being shot by 
whites in Bensonhurst? Good copy! 


Patrick Buchanan defiling Jews? PAY 
DIRT But queers being killed? No, no, 
no. No way. It just doesn't sell. Can’t 
exploit it. Fags and dykes, after all, 
DESERVE IT! 

Well, not ME. And not YOU 
either NO, WE ARE NOT GOING TO 
LET THESE BASTARDS FUCK US 
OVER. We are not going to let them 
dust us under the carpet. They have 
a responsibility to report the news. 
And we ARE the fucking news right 
now. And we’re going to shove our¬ 
selves in their fat. ugly, straight, 
white, male faces! Call slimy Max 
Frankel at the Times, and call Jerry 
Nachman, the lip-service liberal at 
the Post. Tell them that their cover¬ 
age of the anti-gay violence epidemic 
is grossly inadequate, that we want 
the same treatment as every other 
community and that their negligence 
makes them ACCESSORIES TO MUR¬ 
DER! Tell them we want front-page, 
sensational headlines and not some 
little story buried in the paper! Call 
the editors of Newsday and the Daily 
News. Call that lying creep Ed Kosner 
at New York. Call Time. Call 
Newsweek. CALL EVERYONE. CALL 
THEM AGAIN AND AGAIN AND 
AGAIN AND AGAIN. COMPLAIN! 
SCREAM! YELL! THIS IS YOUR UFE 
BEING PLAYED WITH BY A BUNCH 
OF MONEY-HUNGRY, BIGOTED 
EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS. CALL 
YOUR FRIENDS AND TELL THEM TO 
CALL. AND TELL THEM TO CALL 
THEIR FRIENDS. FAX THIS COL¬ 
UMN—AND ALL OF THESE PHONE 
NUMBERS—TO EVERYONE! 

And then get yourself into the 
streets and scream. Go and join 
Queer Nation and organize protests 
outside ALL of the aforementioned 
monsters' offices, homes and—espe¬ 
cially—outside of their social events 
where we can embarrass them to the 
max. Queer Nation must up the ante 
and utilize civil disobedience as a 
tactic. And it must target the medial 
We must be willing to go as far as 
we have to—BY ANY MEANS NEC¬ 
ESSARY—because this is literally a 
war, complete with all the blood, the 
gore and the dead fucking bodies. 
AND ONLY WE ARE GOING TO 
SAVE OURSELVES. 

As for me, I can’t wait for the glo¬ 
rious day when the first gay-basher is 


killed in the act I just hope I'm nearby 
so that I can take out a machete, cut 
open his skull, rip out his bloody, dis¬ 
turbed brain... 

AND TAKE IT UP TO THE NEW 
YORK TIMES TO HURL IT ACROSS 
THE NEWSROOM! ▼ 




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by Martha 6ever 

Even a couple of years ago. 
assembling work for a festival dedicat¬ 
ed to new lesbian and gay videotape* 
would have been either a modest pro¬ 
ject or fust plain frustrating. There sim¬ 
ply wasn't much. The limited list of 
tapes with lesbian or gay themes, 
imagery or characters were routinely 
recycled among the var¬ 
ious lesbian and gay 
film festivals, where 
video programs often 
functioned as a second 
thought or sidebar to* 


the more glamorous big-screen offer¬ 
ings—if video was shown at alL 

With the advent of the Lookout 
Festival, an entirely different dilemma 
arises: The number of stylistic variety of 
apes collected for this event may well 
overwhelm a dedicated viewer Festival 
curator Catherine Saalfidd's selection of 
more than 70 opes, clustered themati¬ 
cally into 12 pro¬ 
grams. features little 
that could be called 
predictable. Granted, 
there are several titles 
here that have already 


circulated widely an the screening cir¬ 
cuits—PhU Zwidder and David Woj- 
narowicz's searing monologue on ques¬ 
tions of honesty and dishonesty 
encountered by HIV-positive men. Fear 
of Disclosure, and Jean Cariomusto and 
Gregg Bordowitz's pioneering lesbian 
safer-sex short. Current Flow, for exam¬ 
ple—but the strength of the festival is 
the wealth of work that has received 
little exposure to date, including a 
number of New York premieres. 

Another welcome aspect to this 
event is that for a change, the work 
addressed to gay men doesn’t over¬ 
shadow that with lesbian appeal—the 
benefit, perhaps, of DCTVs decision to 
engage a lesbian programcr who also 
makes videotapes, writes about lesbian 
topics as well as alternative media and 
is politically active. Prominently fea¬ 
tured in the program, for Instance, is 
Dry Kisses Only, Jane Colds and Kaucy- 
Ua Brooke's extended video essay on 
the perils and pleasures experienced by 
moviegoing lesbians. Intercut with an 




demic analysis of classic dykes in con¬ 
ventional cinema—think of Joan Craw¬ 
ford in Johnny Guitar or the Countess 
Geschwitz in Pandora's Beer—an Cot- 
tis and Brooke's lesbian-on-lhc-street 
interviews, in these segments, women 
in various public places are asked to 
recount their favorite examples of les¬ 
bian cinematic pleasure, which range 
from the ever-popular Queen Christina 
to Monika Treut's recent Virgin 
Machine. Although obviously prear¬ 
ranged encounters, these interludes 
provide the link between the video- 
makers’ detailed (at 75 minutes, maybe 
too detailed) survey of the lesbian sub¬ 
texts of Western film culture and the 

LIVE —Kttharine Hepburn in 
Christophsr Strong 




MEMOREX— Brooke as Baxter In 
M About Evt 


animated discussions about movies that 
occur regularly in our subcultures. 

In addition to the intelligence that 
informs this video version of lesbian 
film criticism—an antidote to the 
absencc/denial of lesbian perspectives 
in contemporary feminist film theo¬ 
ry —Dry Kisses Only sustains a low-key 
hilarity throughout. One of the wittiest 
pasages in the tape occurs when 
Brooke replaces Anne Baxter in the 
emotional scene in AH About Eve where 
Eve Carrington first meets her idol, 
Margo Charming (Bette Davis). Brooke 
rewrites and reenacts Eve's autobio¬ 
graphical speech as a lesbian story, 
complete with all the overwrought 
pathos of Baxter's performance. 

Comedy, in multiple guises, 
emerges as a strong suit in Lookout’s 
lesbian lineup. Joystick Blues, by lisa 
Ginsberg and Mickl Guralski. presents a 
pe rfe ct l y paced takeoff on lesbian pom, 
with expectations repeatedly thwarted 
In favor of the foibles of everyday exis¬ 
tence. Humor tempers Hraflnhilder 
Gurmarsdoctir's enigmatic meditation on 
gender identities, Sbt Begins, which 
plays with the analogy of identity and 
image via new-age video technology 
enabling hairstyle selection. In a similar 
vein, Carol Ashley and Kathy Clarke's 
■video performance,' Bathroom Gender. 
not only encapsulates the personal 
development of a buich-to-be but ren¬ 
ders the autobiographical anecdote with 
a deadpan severity that encourages 
knowing amusement 

These three short tapes, all in the 
•Cruisin' the Rubyfruit" program, are 
engaging and well conceived, but in 
terms of ideas, they are practically one- 
liners. The exception to this all-too- 
commoo problem of video shorts and 
first tapes is Sadie Benning's Me 6 
Rubyfruit. the inspiration of the pro¬ 
gram's title. Indeed. Benning's tape is 
the delightful discovery of the festival 
(not all tapes were available for pre¬ 
view, however). What’s most surpris¬ 
ing about the four-minute piece is that 
it was made by a 17-year-old working 
with a video outfit sold as a toy—the 
$100 Ftschcr-Price pixel camera—and 
editing while shooting. Borrowing a 
few sentences from Rita Mae Brown's 
classic, the tape conveys a mood of 



adolescent lesbian longing and confu¬ 
sion echoed in the barely resolved 
dreamy black-and-white pictures sub¬ 
tided with handwritten texts that repeat 
the spoken words on the soundtrack: 
“Girls cant get married.* “Says who?* 
It’s a rule.’ It’s a dumb rule.* Concise 
and unpretentious to the point of 
understatement, Benning uses her 
camera like an electronic sketchbook, 
a move she repeats In If Every Girl 
Had a Diary, although with more ado¬ 
lescent anger and angst, and less con¬ 
trol. than in Me & Rubyfruit. 

Several of the tapes by gay men in 
the festival are likewise accomplished 
contributions to the expanding domain 
of lesbian and gay media. High on that 
list are five tapes by Richard Fung, 
compri si ng a retrospective of the elo¬ 
quent, complex work by this Chinese- 
Trinidadian-Canadian anist (see accom¬ 
panying profile by Karl Soehnlein). 
Tom Rubnitz's three videos —The 
Fairies, Pickle Surprise and Strauberry 
Shortcut —present the most recent 
installments in his ongoing series of 
campy, parodic period pieces. In the 
latter two tapes, Rubnkz delves into the 
genre of quickie cooking tips, devising 
promos for less-than-appetizing but 
genuinely all-American snacks that 
seem apt products of 
our perverse collec¬ 
tive unconscious. 

Marlon Riggs' 

Tongues Untied, one 
of the video high¬ 


lights of the past year. Is notably 
absent from the festival, presumably 
because it has been shown numerous 
times in the city, most recently to a 
packed house at the Lesbian and Gay 
Experimental Film Festival. Lookout 
instead offers Riggs' more recent Affir¬ 
mations, a tape compiled from 
Tongues outtakes but nonetheless 
powerful on its own. In a sense. Affir¬ 
mations picks up where Tongues 
Untied ended, using a combination of 
very personal and very public docu¬ 
mentary footage of African-American 
gay men to envision the possibilities 
for reconciling divided identities and 
communities—African-American and 
gay at once. 

Another well-crafted tape dealing 
with cultural displacement is Andrew 
Pinter's Rofo Vim, an ostensible portrait 
of a Mexican teenager broke, illegal 
and adrift in San Diego. Ricky, the 
teenage subject, decides to hustle for a 
living, commenting. “It’s better than 
working in a taco shop * But, despite 
all his charm and resourcefulness, his 
life remains quite bleak. The clever 
twist comes when Ricky, who has been 
speaking only Spanish, says a few 
words in the final scene—in perfect 
idiomatic English. The device works 
effectively, unbalancing 
the cultural dichts nec¬ 
essary to die voyeuristic 
narrative without un¬ 
dermining the descrip¬ 
tion of economic and 



81 


Character Study 

An interview with Richard Fung, whose 
video work will have a retrospective at the 
Lookout Festival 


political forces played out to the pseu¬ 
do-documentary 

And there’s more too much for a 
critic to digest—indeed a lot to 
squeeze into six consecutive evenings. 
Still, sensory overload can be produc¬ 
tive, and a response to the prolifera¬ 
tion of lesbian and gay media tapped 
by Saalfleid and DCTV can be found to 
two of the festival's opening programs 
devoted to Britain's Out on Tuesday 
series. For the past two years, Channel 
Four to Britain has commissioned and 
aired this magazine program on les¬ 
bian and gay concerns (a third season 
is to the works), with materia] made by 
independent lesbian and gay film and 
video-makers. In addition to producing 
short pieces on timely topics, the series 
has served as the fonder and showcase 
for larger works, such as Isaac Julten's 
Looking for Langston and Stuart Mar¬ 
shall’s Desire Although the preponder¬ 
ance of “talking heads* documentaries 
peppered with stylish graphics may be 
Out on Tuesdays weakness, the con¬ 
cept remains exciting and worthy of 
emulation. And the talent and energy 
required for a US program along the 
same lines is there—in the Lookout 
Festival and in the lesbian and gay 
media boom in general. ▼ 


by Karl Soehnlein 

Richard Fung defies easy 
categorization. A gay man born in 
Trinidad to Chinese immigrant parents. 
Fung has lived most of his adult life to 
Toronto. As an activist to both the gay 
and Asian communities—and mostly in 
the margins where the two overlap—be 
has been using video as a tool of 
empowerment smee his first work, Ori¬ 
entations, to 19M. Constructed from a 
series of interviews with gay and les¬ 
bian Aslans, the tape gave a media 
voice to a community which had never 
before had one. Chinese Characters, a 
look at how commercial gay pom por¬ 
trays Chinese men, followed in 1986. In 
The Way to My Father's IVJage (1988) 
and My Mother's Place (1990). Fung 
explored his racial and cultural identity 
through his parents' experiences. He 
has also completed Steam Clean, a 
safer-sex porn tape for GMHC and, 


most recently, Asian Positive, a look at 
HIV and the Asian community. Fung is 
an articulate and engaging vjdeo- 
maker, and his work is a strong 
reminder that there are many gay and 
lesbian ‘communities.* 

KS: Were Orientations and Chi¬ 
nese Characters made for different 
audiences? 

RF: My background in community 
television gave me a really strong 
sense of audience. Our station manag¬ 
er used to say, ‘If you only reach 15 
people, but those are the people who 
need to see this tape, then that's good 
programing.' So when I did Orienta¬ 
tions, I very much geared it toward gay 
and lesbian Asians. Chinese Characters 
deals primarily with Chinese as 
opposed to Asians, but I had a sense 
that it was talking also to all gay men 
around the issues of pornography. 
Both rapes responded very much to 
political needs I saw to the community. 

Chinese Characters came about 
because there was a locked, polarized 
debate going nowhere between certain 
radical feminists who opposed pornog¬ 
raphy on aD grounds, not making any 
distinctions between homosexual and 
heterosexual—what I thought was a 
very crude argument—and what I 
would call libertarian gay men who 
said that because gay men had been 
denied access to sexual representation, 
we had to support any kind of sexual 
representation, no matter what it was. 
As a gay man of color who was sym¬ 
pathetic to feminism, I saw whole 
areas not being discussed. The people 
I described as libertarian were all 
white men and hadn't stopped to think 
of how people of color related to gay 
pornography, which usually excludes 
us or demeans us. We wanted to cri¬ 
tique pornography but didn't want to 
fall into a pro-censorship kind of dis¬ 
course, because pornography is also 



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Mother's Placs 


really important. People in small towns 
come to gay consciousness first by see¬ 
ing things like Mandate way before 
they hear of gay liberation. So pornog¬ 
raphy serves a real function, but it 
does that at the expense of a more 
complex identity. 

KS: The tapes you made after that 
are the tapes about your family, right? 

RF: Yes. In Tbe Way to My Father's 
Village, I was trying to figure out this 
relationship I had with China, which I 
had never seen but which played such 
a large pan in my sense of who I was 
and other people's sense of who I was. 
A lot of Western-bom Chinese have a 
very complex, contradictory relation¬ 
ship to the country. It finds them in 
spite of themselves. The tape with my 
mother is, in some ways, the most 
sophisticated and, in some ways, the 
most mainstream, although I probably 
vould like to think of it as accessible. I 
r ew up in Trinidad at the point of 
independence. My mother grew up 
during colonialism—she’s 81 years old 
now. Her ideas really reflect a colo¬ 
nized identity. At the same time, I 
anted to scrutinize my own identity. 
My mother took Super 8s of us when 
we were growing up, so the tape 
incorporates that, and there's stuff 
about me growing up a sissy and stuff. 

I had originally thought I would just 
spend a little time doing that autobio¬ 
graphical stuff, and then I got into it 
and it absorbed me more. 

KS: Your most recent work deals 
with AIDS. 

RF. Yes. I did the HIV tape 
because of the extreme level of denial 
of the gay Asian community in Toron¬ 
to, and how it doesn't create a space 
for people who are positive to come 
out or to seek help or support from 
their friends. I’m involved with the Gay 
Asian AIDS Project and was at a safer- 
sex workshop, and I was just amazed 
at the way people put HIV so far away 
from them and talked in a derogatory 
manner about HIV, not even thinking 
that someone among them may be 
positive. So what I wanted to do in 
Asian Positive was create a context in 
which people will be 
able to talk about 
things and not feel iso¬ 
lated, to fed that there 
are other people who 
have experienced these 


things. The tape isn't geared to give 
information or talk about specific 
issues around activism, but to do 
something much "softer.* I fed that’s 
what needs to be done now. 

KS: The GMHC safer-sex tape 
seems to combine the issues of Chi¬ 
nese Characters and Asian Positive 

RF: That tape took me a long time 
to do because I couldn't find Asians 
who would have sex on camera, and I 
think k has to do with people being 
more wary about doing sexually 
explicit stuff. I originally wanted to 
have two East or Southeast Asian peo¬ 
ple doing it—two "Orientals." I 
couldn’t find anyone, and it took me 
months and months of promises foiling 
through. In the end, I used one person 
who’s Chinese and one person who’s 
Indian. What I kept falling into was. 
Who can fuck whom? It becomes this 
kind of geometry of sexuality. How do 
you work out these grids of oppres¬ 
sion, and how do you balance them? It 
brought together for me a lot of the 
issues around "countering" work. 

KS: How did you solve the 
dilemma? 

RF: I don't think I did it in a very 
satisfactory way. I had the Chinese guy 
fuck the Indian guy. but the Indian 
guy sits on him. I was thinking that I 
was affirming the pleasure of tbe anus. 
That’s how I justified «, but it’s by no 
means an answer. 

KS: It also raises the issue: If 
you're getting fucked, does that some¬ 
how mean you’re in a lesser position 
of control? 

RF: The problem, though, is that 
when I examined the erotic work fea¬ 
turing Asian models, "Asian" and 
"anus* were always conflated. What 
you're saying is true, but historically 
this is the way the representation has 
developed, so I couldn't just transcend 
it It will always be a problem until gay 
Asians make enough work to counter¬ 
act it, so people at least know there 
are differences. 

KS: Your first tape was all inter¬ 
views, but in later tapes you seem to 
be experimenting more. 

RF: I'm interested 
in experimentation and 
communication. One of 
the reasons I'm doing 
experimentation is that 
traditional film language 



“What I kept 
falling into 
was, Who can 


fuck whom? It 


becomes this 


kind of 


geometry of 
sexuality. ” 


carries a lot of ideological haggage with 
t Tbe Cosbys is a great example of what 
I mean. It uses all the terms of the domi¬ 
nant media, like the terms of success, of 
being "good people," of the nuclear fam¬ 
ily, and then tries to situate a Black fami¬ 
ly in It It’s interesting that its become 
the most popular show, because I think 
that sort of average, semi-racist people 
who are not Blade can like The Cosbys 
and still carry around all the racist bag¬ 
gage in their head with their neighbors 
who arc Black . 

KS: Who aren't doctors and 
lawyers... 

RF: And who aren't in perfect fami¬ 
lies. At the same time, 1 have sat through 
a lot of experimental film and videotapes 
where 1 don’t know what's going on, 
and often it makes you feel kind of 
stupid. I try to balance out my own 
desire for experi m entation with giving an 
audience who may not be used to see¬ 
ing experimental work things that they 
can hold on to or grasp. I always deal 
with margins within the margins, like 
West Indian Chinese people or gay 
Asians, so I try to not be alienating. I fed 
like I also have a responsibility to acti¬ 
vate this audience. T 


A Little Leavitty 


by Maria Magganti 


about what k was like to come of age 


Passing through New York on a sexually around the time that AIDS 

nationwide book tour, author David staned, which is more or less what I 

Leavitt spoke about ait, politics and his did. And certainly for people younger 

recently published collection, A Place than us, for kids who are 20, they 

I've Never Been. were 10 years old in I960, so I was 

thinking I wanted to try to do a book 
Marla Maggcnti: I heard a rumor on that I thought about it for a long 
that you are writing a nonfiction book time, but I just decided that I couldn't 
about AIDS and ACT UP. True or false? do k. I didn’t know enough. 


David Leavitt: 
Most literature about 
AIDS has been about 
AIDS as the great 
divider between before 
and after. But I was 
interested in talking 


BOOKS 


I would love to 
write a book about 
ACT UP. I think some¬ 
day there will be a 
really good book about 
ACT UP, but I don’t 
think I could write it. It 


*jL 


has to be written by an historian, and 
second of all, I don’t think anyone 
could write k now. 

MM: Another rumour was that 
you are working on a screenplay, true? 

DU Yes, I am working on a screen¬ 
play, an original screenplay for an AIDS 
film. I am working with John 
SchJesinger. It’s really hard. I didn’t 
expect k to be as difficult as k is. You 
have to think in a totally different way. 
I’ve done a very, very rough first draft, 
and rm going to go back out to Califor¬ 
nia to meet with John. But I never really 
wanted to write a screenplay. He 
approached me about k. He had read 
The Lost Language of Cranes. He want¬ 
ed to do an AIDS film. He had these 
ideas for it, and I think he’s such a 
good director, I've been such an admir¬ 
er of his for so long, particularly Sun¬ 
day RJoody Sunday and Midnight Cow¬ 
boy thought. This b a man who real¬ 
ly could do thb film, because he’s very 
unflinching, he’s very unafraid, and I 
think he’s lived through k. He’s been 
through it. he’s experienced the AIDS 
crisis from very nearby—and from 
inside to a great extent—and I thought. 
Well, if I can write thb script, and he 
can make k into a good film, then that's 
something I would like to do. 

Lost language has been optioned, 
and it’s being done by the BBC in 
England, but that’s a whole different 
project. I’m not writing anything for 
that one. 

Among my ambitions for this 
film—and thb b what’s difficult about 
working on the screenplay—l wanted 
k to be a very intimate film, something 
that was about people before it was 
about AIDS. At the same time, I really 
wanted to get in the politics, and I 
really wanted the film to have some 
sex because that was my major com¬ 
plaint about Longtime Companion, 
that it was a completely anti-sex 
movie. So trying to negotiate all those 
desires b difficult because, on the one 
hand, you don’t want to be propagan¬ 
dists, and, on the other hand, you 
want to get the information across 

I think what I’m learning b that 
you can go from idea to character, 
which is, to create a character to 
express an idea, and that never works. 


AT HOME —Author David Leavitt 




What you have to do is create the 
characters and let the ideas come out 
naturally. It’s difficult in a screenplay 
to figure out how to get the informa¬ 
tion across without people getting lec¬ 
tures, add that’s the hard part. But I’m 
figuring it out. 

I do see this project as being more 
his (Schlesinger’sj than mine because 
he has such a strong directorial vision, 
and a lot of the best stuff in his films 
comes from him. So what I want to 
write would be a screenplay that is 
son of a guide for him. I really think 
he is so incredible. I'm grateful to have 
gotten to know him because he is an 
extraordinary man. 

MM: As a young gay man and a 
published author, you serve as a kind 
of cultural voice in the mainstream 
press and elsewhere, and I wanted to 
ask you if that put pressure on you in 
terms of your relationship with the rest 
of the community. And, on an unrelat¬ 
ed matter, there isn't a lesbian equiva¬ 
lent to a David Leavitt in the publish¬ 
ing world. I wondered what your take 
on this is? 

DL: Early on, I made the decision 
that 1 had to be absolutely and totally 
out. There was no choice for me about 
that. Not only in my writing but in my 
sort of public life. I continue to feel 
that as a principle. However, I think it’s 
important for me to make a distinction 
between myself as a sort of public fig¬ 
ure and myself as a writer. The reason I 
make that distinction is because I fed a 
lot of obligations as a person. I fed that 
1 am obligated to be politically active, I 
fed I am obligated to address a lot of 
things in my writing, since I'm given 
the opportunity to do so in terms of 
nonfiction. However, I don't fed any of 
those obligations in terms of writing fic¬ 
tion because I think that as a fiction 
writer, you've got to be—a friend of 
mine put it this way: Your only obliga¬ 
tion is to write well. And Grace Paley 
once said: To write politically is merely 
to tell the truth in fiction. So I'm always 
sort of careful to make that distinction, 
because I do think it's dangerous to 
start seeking *role models" in fiction, 
because then you look to fiction as you 
would to a kind of propaganda, and I 
think it's simply important for writers to 
be able in their fiction to tell the truth, 
even if the truth isn't pretty, or even if 


“I get sick of 
being asked 
‘Why do you 
always write 
about gay 
characters?’ as 
if anyone 
would ever 
ask John 
Updike, ‘Why 
do you always 
write about 
straight 
people?’” 


it isn't what people want to hear. 

As far as the The New York Times is 
concerned, I have this weird position 
vis-a-vis The New York Times I am the 
person they call when they want some¬ 
thing written from a sort of leftist gay 
perspective, and I don't know how I 
fed about that, or why they don't ask 
other people. But the fact of the matter 
a that as long as they're calling me, I 
fed an obligation to say yes, because 
as long as I have that platform, I want 
to use it responsibly. So I did that piece 
on the NEA, and I will continue to do 
things like that and to sort of use the 
position that I have to try to talk about 
these political issues. Grace Paley has 
been sort of a role model for me 
because she’s a writer who's managed 
to maintain her identity as a writer and 
her identity as a leftist, and that’s some¬ 
thing 1 try to emulate. 

As for your question that there is 
no lesbian equivalent...I have no 
romantic illusions about the publishing 
Industry or the media. It's all about 
money. In I960, Mi chad Denneny and 
Bill Whitehead started publishing books 
by gay men. and they proved that it 
was profitable, so the publishing indus¬ 
try said, "Oh. money** and they started 
publishing gay men. By and large, the 
mainstream publishing industry has not 
made the same realization about les¬ 
bians. I think they're crazy, because my 
sense is that It Is very profitable. I mean, 
Sarah Schulman is one of the few writ¬ 
ers who sells incredibly well, compara¬ 
tively speaking, but she doesn't get the 
kind of publicity, and she doesn't get 
taken seriously, even within the pub¬ 
lishing community, in the way I do. 

MM: Why do you think this is? 

DL: I think it's all sexism. It’s hard 
to believe that anything would interfere 
with thinking about profit, but Naiad 
Press and other lesbian presses sell a 
lot of books, and you would think that 
one of these big publishers would kind 
of get with it. They did, to a certain 
extent, with [editor] Carole De Sand at 
Dutton, but then she got fired, she and 
everybody else. But it doesn't have to 
necessarily be a lesbian editor. For 
example, all the gay books at Plume— 
the two editors who handle them are 
straight. But it all comes down to recog¬ 
nizing that this is something worth 
doing, and I don't think they perceive it 



as such. Sarah iSchulmanl and Rita Mac 
Brown art kind of it 

I think that the problem there is 
no* only the gay issue, but there's sex¬ 
ism involved and the fact that it's a lot 
harder for women writers anyway. I 
also think because there is a greater 
amount of homophobia about lesbian¬ 
ism in that area than there is about 
male homosexuality. There’s kind of an 
accepted role in the literary world for 
gay men, and I don't think there is for 
lesbians. But I'm pretty confident that it 
will change. Someone will come out of 
the woodwork and take over that role. 

MM: What do you think of the 
gay press—your relationship to it, writ¬ 
ing for it, being written about by it, at 
this particular moment, at the begin¬ 
ning of the ‘90s? 

DL: Well, 1 haven't written a lot for 
the gay press, and primarily it’s because 
I'm not basically a journalist. I do pieces 
like that when people ask me to. The 
gay press never asks me to do stuff, but 
who knows why But I have certainly 
been interviewed by the gay press a lot, 
and I think there's a real revolution 
going on in the gay press, just in the 
last year or two. I love, and I know this 
is kind of stupid to say in an interview 
in OulWeek, but I love OutWeek. I 
mean, there are problems, it’s still grow¬ 
ing. but basically 1 find it really interest¬ 
ing. really challenging. It’s controversial, 
k doesn't accept any kind of status quo. 
it takes big rides, and it isn't sort of so 
pc that it ends up being totally boring 
A lot of the smaller newspapers across 
the country still have that feeling to 
some extent. What I think is happening 
is that, in the past, the gay community 
was much less political, and the people 
who were political were political in a 
certain style, and what's happening 
now is that many, many more voices 
are getting tn, many more people are 
getting politicized, and as they become 
politicized, you start seeing all different 
kinds of styles of being political, and 
you don’t have the kind of narrow¬ 
minded attitude or narrow definition of 
what one ought to be if one is gay that 
you used to have. There’s an openness 
to all different kinds of experience. 

Of course, the other big difference. 

M THE STREETS —ACT UP'S Burroughs 
Wskcome Demonstration. September 1989 


56 


which, I think, is the most exciting is the 
fact that it is gay men and lesbians, and 
that’s great. It’s so great. It’s recognizing 
a common ground, whereas before, the 
two communities were so separate. 

MM: Your story 'Gravity* is the 
first one to deal explicitly with a PWA 
and AIDS in your work. I remember 
that you had been criticized before for 
not writing about AIDS. People said, 
'How can you write about gay life and 
not write about AIDS?* What allowed 
you to write this story at this time? 

DL: I had to wait until the right 
story happened, and as it stands, I find 
AIDS really, really hard to write about in 
fiction—it’s much harder in fiction than 
in nonfiction. I don't know why that is. I 
think it’s because the two things one 
wants to describe are 
loss and bravery, and 
loss and bravery are 
really hard to do in fic¬ 
tion without seeming 
banal. I've read some 


brilliant examples of this, but IYe read a 
lot of stories of men slowly wasting 
away and dying, and I don't want to 
write that—1 don't want to hear that 
anymore. I know it can be done bril¬ 
liantly, but I want to hear something 
ebe. The problem is, even though I say, 
'I want to hear something ebe,' I don't 
quite know how to do it 

MM: After readrrg *My Marriage to 
Vfcngeanoe,' the story of a lesbian's visit to 
her ex-lover’s wedding and liking < very 
mud), I am hoping we may sec more les¬ 
bians in your writing I'm interested in 
how we transmit our (Merer* experiences 
as gay men and lesbians to each other, 
especially as we are together more and 
mare. You are pan of that small crowd of 



who do say ‘gay men and lesbians.' 

Your public self does at 
least allow you to get die 


DL: All my best 
friends my whole life 
have been lesbians. My 



rn 



Home Away 
From Home 

A PLACE I’VE NEVER BEEN by David Leavitt. Viking. $18.95 cL 194 pp. 


best ftiend since I was 9 yean old is a 
lesbian. I wrote that story because I had 
been to a lot of weddings and always 
[sat] in the 'weird’ comer. I wrote it 
because I knew a lot of people who 
were going through things like this, and 
I think that fiction is all about empathy, 
and it's all about point of view, and it's 
about putting yourself in the skin of 
someone who is different from you. So, I 
decided this is something I want to do. 
Now, interestingly, when this story was 
first published in Mother Jones, there was 
quite a negative reaction from a lot of 
lesbians who were not so much com¬ 
plaining about me, though some of them 
did, but most of them felt that it was 
really unfair of Mother Jones that the first 
story they should ever publish about les¬ 
bians was by a man. And they have a 
point, they have a real point 1 mean. I 
feel as though Mother Jones kind of 
fucked up. I think it would have been 
better for them to publish a story by a 
lesbian. They're a progressive magazine, 
and they have taken on that role. 

The book I am now starting will 
have lesbians In It, and that's not a 
choice—that is just a reflection of my 
own internal reality and my imagination, 
and it's fascinating. I suppose for me 
that writing about lesbians is a way of 
writing about being gay and getting 
away from myself at the same time. Fic¬ 
tion for me is all about finding out what 
people have in common and what they 
don't have in common. Basically, there's 
more in common than not There is no 
'normal" point of view anymore—that is 
a totally outdated notion. I get sick of 
being asked, "Why do you always write 
about gay characters?* as if anyone 
would ever ask John Updike, "Why do 
you always write about straight people?* 

I don't know what it's going to take, but 
my sense of the matter is that over the 
next ten, years there's going to be more 
and more literature from the so-called 
minorities, because the demographics of 
the country are changing 1 think anoth¬ 
er change that we're noticing in gay 
and lesbian literature is that, whereas 
ten years ago most, especially gay 
male writers, were very much writing 
for a gay audience, I think people are 
doing that less and less. 1 think they 
arc writing for a wider, larger audi¬ 
ence—the idea being that even 
though writing may have a sexuality, 
reading doesn't. T 


by Christopher Davis 

Many of the themes, and some of 
the characters, in Mr. Leavitt's new 
story collection, A Place I've Never 
Been, appeared in his earlier works. 
We first met Celia, along with the gay 
couple Nathan and Andrew, In the 
story ‘Dedicated* from Family Dane - 
Ing. In ‘Dedicated,’ Celia is over¬ 
weight—*On land, she lumbers, her 
body is heavy and ungainly and must 
be covered with dank swatches of fab¬ 
ric, with loose skirts and saris*—unhap¬ 
py, and in love with both Nathan and 
Andrew, although she realizes that nei¬ 
ther of them can love her in return. 
Although Mr. Leavitt could have easily 
left her as a stereotypical ’fag hag* (an 
Insulting term for everyone concerned, 
but there is no other), he does not; his 
analysis of her feelings and motivations 
is thoughtful and instructive. 

We meet Celia again, years later, 
both in narrative time and real time, 
in the first and title story of Mr. Leav¬ 
itt's new collection. Nathan is still 
around and still disltkable, but Celia 
has lost weight, has begun to see her¬ 
self as attractive and to consider rela¬ 
tionships with straight men and, best 
of all, is becoming independent from 
Nathan's never-ending need for sym¬ 
pathetic consolation. I think that read¬ 
ers who do not know the earlier story 
will miss much, but even on its own it 
is convincing. 

We meet Celia a final time in one 
of the major stories of this collection, 
*1 See London, I see France." It Is a 
few years after *A Place I’ve Never 
Been,* and Celia is finally a complete 
person on her own, settling in Italy 
with a male lover, living a life better 
than any she had ever dared dream of. 
It is a woven, com¬ 
plex, mature story, and 
at the‘end, Celia real¬ 
izes that it will be a 
long time, if ever, 
before she is able to 
reconcile and merge 


the fantasy life she is now living with 
the reality she believes is herself. That 
the reader questions which reality is 
truly 'real* adds to the effectiveness of 
the story. 

Much of Mr. Leavitt's earlier writing 
is about families—heterosexual 
ones—in various states of decay or 
ruin. In Family Dancing, families are 
destroyed by marital infidelities, by ter¬ 
minal illnesses, by the revelations of the 
homosexuality of children, husbands, 
fathers. The Lost Language of Cranes 
(which, if you haven't read it, refers to 
building equipment, not birds) again 
concentrates on the theme of the 
destruction of the family, this time 
through the revelation of the homosex¬ 
uality of both a son and a father/hus¬ 
band; and his third book. Equal Affec¬ 
tions, continues the theme, this time 
through the illness and death of the 
mother and the infidelities of the father. 

Families are also important in A 
Place I've Never Been. Celia and her 
lover, in the story previously men¬ 
tioned, are visiting a wealthy, decadent 
expatriate family that is collapsing 
under its own weight. Everyone is 
spoiled; no one works, no one has ever 
had to work. As one character says, 
about Celia's former job as a proofread¬ 
er and copy editor, "Any kind of work 
sounds glamorous to me, never having 
done any myself.* And the most ambi¬ 
tious story of the collection, ‘Roads to 
Rome.* is about an extended family so 
complex it takes a careful reading to 
follow it all. Everyone is gathered in a 
house in the Italian countryside to pay 
their respects to a thoroughly dislikable 
96-year-old woman, who, if there were 
any justice, would have been dead a 
long time ago. One of the characters in 
this bizarre story was a 
gay coprop hagist who 
committed suicide; "My 
son was a strange 
young mat* He liked 
to wear dresses and 
eat shit." Indeed. 



Much of Mr. 


Leavitt’s 
earlier writing 
is about 
families— 
heterosexual 
ones— 
in various 
states of 
decay or 
ruin.... Families 
are also 
important in 
A Place I've 


Mr Leavin'* theme of the destruc¬ 
tion of the family through the rrvda- 
of homosexuality o continued in t 
painful story, "Houses,* where a man 
leaves his wife for another man, returns 
to his wife and then leaves again, but 
too late because the other man has 
found someone else. One of the stories 
in this collection follows earlier work 
very carefully. In ‘Spouse Night,* a 
curious story that I didn't tike at first 
but do now, we find a different version 
of what happened after the mother's 
death in Equal Affections. (Perhaps this 
story was written before the novel) 

As is always the case in story col¬ 
lections, I liked some stories better 
than others. My favorite was ‘Gravity,* 
a tiny story that begins: Theo had a 
choice between a drug that would 
save his sight and drug that would 
keep him alive, so he chose not to go 
blind. He stopped the pills and started 
the injections—these required the 
implantation of an unpleasant and 
painful catheter just above the 
heart—and within a few days the 
cloud In his eyes started to dear up. 
He could see again.* The story con¬ 
tains a wonderful, and unexpected, 
affirmation of life, and was, I thought, 
just about perfect 


My least favorite of the collection 
was ‘AYOR,* which first appeared in 
Men on Men 2. I’m not certain what 
it's about, but the ‘bad* promiscuous 
gay man gets his punishment in the 
form of rape and general unhappi¬ 
ness. The ‘good* character doesn’t 
seem all that happy, either, however, 
so I’m not sure what the point was. 
There is also a trite throwaway enti¬ 
tled *Chip6 Is Here,* which I thought 
was far inferior to the rest of the col¬ 
lection and totally out of place. 

I realize, however, that writing is 
more than the sum of its ports; it is 
more than themes, character, lan¬ 
guage. locales. To be effective, it has 
to be alive; it has to have a com¬ 
pelling life of its own. This is a high 
standard, but one by which a writer 
of Mr. Leavitt's talent—and reputa¬ 
tion-must be judged. A Place I've 
Never Been mostly passes this test, 
and the writing itself is always direct 
and unmannered. Although eight of 
the ten stories were previously pub¬ 
lished, and I had read several of 
them, they were almost all worth 
reading again. Mr. Leavitt is perhaps 
our finest gay writer, a statement I do 
not make lightly. I look forward to 
Us future work.V 


Leave or Die 


by Aaaotto Saint 

next time 

under cover of darkness 
or high noon 

someone shouts "fuckin' faggot* 
fists fly 

out of your pocket 
unclasp a safety pin 
prick your finger quick 

blood spurts 

queeriy ask "lookin' for aids' 


dare stand brave 
remember this land is home 
aim free 

Assoao Saint's last book of poems was 
Stations. His last theater piece was 
New Love Song. ▼ 


POETRY 


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ber 3) 208 W13 Sc 620-7210 

CetemMa Dance* [Sem£ BuTDifterenT, 3rd SAT, naxt is Oct 20; DJ 
Karin Ward. 10 pm - 3 am; SI Earl HaB. 116 SVB'way. 628-1969 
418419N. Highway. Southampton. U; 514263-5001 
Lera Znae (dancing 4 performer*) 70 Beach St. Staten Wand; 714442-5882 
a Mika Todd Room at Palladium (Ju6a Jewels 4 friends, $10 w. Invite) 
123 E 13 St 473-7171 

Octagon (Jason's monthly Saturday Dances. DJ Michael Fierman; next 
art Nov 10. Dec 8; $15) 555 W 33 St 947-0400 
Palladium (Dance Patrol's Out Late at PetaOum giy/Yxxvgay 11 pm - 8 
am, 2 am shwr, S2Q/S10 w. Invte) 126 E14 SC 473-7171 
♦Private Eyes (Shaacapa Saturday Night Parties tor Woman, opens 9 
prn. SS bafora 14*10 after) 12 W 21 St Wo 6*5-647* club 206-7772 
ARexy (gay boy*, guy*, men; non-gay women, tome lesbians; mix 
da pend* on party) 515 W IS St (btwn 1411 Avea); 645-5156 

♦ Sliver Lining (women s Sat) 175 Chany Lana, ftoral Park, U; 514354-96*1 
a 46 Rood (Ella/Sht International Parties tor Wtman, DJ dancing, 2nd 

4 4th Sat, $10. opana Oct 13) 6 Bond St (B way/lafayatte); 489-4165 
Setted Factory (mostly gay. sarioua HoutVCIub dancing, no alcohol, 
opan* 11 pm) 530 W 27 St (10th/1 Hh Avea); 64341728 

Sunday 

a Belter Days Iprmarily gay man of color) 318 W48 St (49 Avaa). 2456925 
The Baildiag lOalss' Tha Man's Room, studants, profesaionate. men; 

go-go boys 4 90-ft calling) 51W 26 Sc 576-1890 
A Cato Society (EJectrs St J9Ts Society Sundays Taa Oanca. Hr NRG DJ 
Chuck Davit. Socitty Dane art; 5 pm-TT; $10) B way at 21 Sc 5294282 
a a Club Ed ehwe tea (Sunday Tea Dane*, TVs 4 TSs with their non-gay, 
bi. and gay adrrwtr*. alto open TUE-SAT night) 167 W 29; 8664989 
Mee ata r (Sundty Taa Oanca et 4 pm; dancing ttso on other n#ght* from 
10 pm) 80 Grove St at Sheridan Sq.; 924-3567 

♦ Pate* (Shatc ape Tee Dances tor Women, 7 pm • rmdnight, $6 before 8 

pnVS7 after) 226 E 54 St (2nd/3rd Aveah Wo 845-6479 
A Py ra mid [Scream, DJa Patrick and Aaron, host torsos; SS) 101 Avanua 
A btwn 47 Streets; 420-1590 

♦Rex (Jenny's BirlBar. DJ dancing. 8 pm • midnight $5} 579 8th Ava 
(1417 Sts); 741-0080 

Roxy (A Broovy Kind of Love) SIS W18 Sc 845-5158 
2ROO (Michael Feecoli Taa Dance, opens 5 pm; $6; free Mimosas 4 BMs 
Irom 5-7, buffet at 73Ct ao longer tells Mrifer) 20 W 20 St 7274841 

Every Night (or almost) 

♦ Bedrock (lesbian club, closed MON 4 TUE) 121W 

Hsmpstaad. LI; 514465-8616 

♦ Due bats II (smaB dancs floor) Sheridan Squara 4 7th Ava; 242-1408 
418 (ntghtty Gey House Party, opens 8 pm) 419 N. Hghwey (Rta 27). 

Southampton. U; 514263-5001 

Grand Central (cloaad Mon, 2-4-1 drinks Thursday) 210 Merrick Rood. 
RockviBe Centra, U. 514535-4800 

Magic Touch (ethnic mix; Angk*tet*VA**in) 73-13 37th Rd. Jackson 
Height*, Quaant. 714429-8805 

Memtar (Wait Village) 80 Grove St at Sheridan Sq.; 824-3557 
Spectru m (good mix of gay man 4 ietbians; closed Mon-Tua, WE0 free. 
THU has 4 2-4-1 drinks. FRI mala/lam*4* strippers. SAT recording 
sun. SUN vinery show 4 fra* admittion 9-10 pm; Coon served! 


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Bwtwy Coast. 64 7th Awe. |14th StL 675-0385 
The Break. 232 8th Ave. (22nd St). 627-0072. 

Chetaee Transfer. 131 8th Aw. (bet. Ifthi 17thJ. 
929-7183 

Eegfe* Nest. 14211th Aw (21st StJ. 691-8451 

Privets Eyes. 12 W. 21** St (bet. 5th & 6th). 
206-7770 

Rawhide. 212 8th Aw.. (21st StL unlisted 
Spite. 12011th Aw. 243-9688 


Duchess B. 70 Grow St{7t»AwL 242-1406 (Ww*n| 

Duflout. 185 Christopher St. 242-9113 (lormerty 
the Ramrod) 

Eighty Eights. 228W10 St. 924-0008 
The Hangout (Xil 675 Hufeon St, 242-9292 
•hilius. 159W. 10th St. 929-9672 
Keier’s, 384 West St (at Christopher!. 243-1907 
Wty* Village West 46 Bedford Si. 929-9322 
Marie's Crisis. 59 Grow St (7th Aw). 243-9323 
The Monster. 80 Grow St (7tf» Aw.). 924-3558 


Don't Tell Mama. 343 W. 46th St. 757-0788 
Gents. 360 W42 St (9lh Awl. 967-0658 
Salty* Hideaway. 264 W. 43 St. 221 -9152 
Town & Country. 9th Aw at 46th St. 307-1503 
Trfa. 246 W. 48 St (Bweyflth Awl. 664-8331 

Tht Works. 428 Columbus Ave (at 81st), 
799-7365 

EAST SIDE _ 

Bogans. 320 E 58th St, 688-8534 


WEST VILLAGE 


Badlands. Christopher & West St. 741-9236 
Boots & Saddle. 76 Christopher Sl. 929-9684 

Celiblock 28, 28 9th Ave, 733-3144 (j.o. club, 
open on a runted basis, call for into) 

The Cubbyhole. 438 Hudson (Morton St). 
243-9079 

Crwy Nanny's. 21 7th Avenue South, 366-6312 
(Women) 

D.T.* Fat Cat 281 W. 12th St. 243-9041 


New Jimmy’s. 53 Christopher. 463-0960 
Ninth Circle. 139 W. 10th St. 243-9204 
Sneakers. 392 West St, 242-9630. 

Two Potato. 145 Christopher St. 242-9340. 

Tyt, 114 Christopher. 741 9641 

Unde Charlie's. 56 Greenwich Aw, 255-8787 

WEST SIDE _ 

Candle Bat. 309 Amsterdam Aw, 874-9155 
Cart. 730 8th Aw, 221-7569 


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There is no question that electing 
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The Districting Commission's first 
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Machon. the new board president, said 
that Long and other board members 
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While Long reportedly sought to 
move the 2-year-old group, recendy re¬ 
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ward actual research on pharmaceuti¬ 
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Long, who turned down a position 
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employs four full-time staffers. "ATR 
wants to move toward outreach and 
education, particularly among minorities 
and women," said Machon. The group 
will continue to publish its directory 
and guide to clinical trials. 

Other executive directors who have 
left their Jobs in the post year are: Craig 
Davidson of Gay and Lesbian Alliance 
Against Defamation; GMHCs Jeffrey 
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Fund for Human Dignity; FAIRFACs Can¬ 
dida Scott Piel, whose organization will 
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State Lesbian and Gay Lobby; Barbara 
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Prorata m*rbla baths, docks, 
kitchans, spa. 

414 Smonton Straat 
Kay Watt FL 33040 
(600) 646-3780 

HOTEL RIYERY1EW 
M GREENWICH VILLAGE 
Naar cafas, clubs & disco*. Am pi* 
parting. Clasn. comfortable rooms 
with color tvt/rsdm Starting at 
838.70 par day 

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113 Jans corner Wast St. 8264060 


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Sarans wooded sotting. 
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RO 1, Bos 127 

Baroat.VT 05621 (802)6334047 


A great gateway for l< 
No smoking. 


HOTEL SHELBY 

Toronto's Inn-expansive 
Bad & Breakfast Hotel 
Ressonsbl* rates include: 
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•A/C Color T.V, Prion* 

•Daily maid sarvica 
•Summer Courtyard 
•Purple Cactus Bar & Bril 
Plus two of Toronto's most popular 
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Bud’s an undar one roof 
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Tol free (800) 3874788 
892 Shorboum* Straat 
Toronto, Ontario Canada M4X 1LA 

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•6' wids French doors to beach and 
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Hotywood, FL 33019 
(305)9232100 
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2504 *A* Streot San Diego. CA 82102 
(619) 2364738 


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Charming rooms. Just 859 single or 


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Tan Bedrooms, Master Suits with 
sunken tub. 

Pool TV Hoorn. Gym. 
(800)767-1789 (707)865-1758 

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Across America, 
People Are Coming Out 

NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY. OCTOBER 11,1990 







O n October 11. thousands of people from ail walks of 

life will be making a decision to lead more open gay and 
lesbian lives. They’ll be coming out. 

Telling the truth about yourself is a fundamental step in creating 
closer relationships with your family and friends. Below are a few 
ways you can come out. 


■ Talk with your brother, sister, father, mother or child, 
and let them know' more fully who you are. 


a Come out to a friend or colleague. 

a Contact, join or contribute to a local 
or national lesbian/gay organization. 

■ Write to your elected officials to 
make sure they know they represent 
gay and lesbian constituents. One 
way of doing this is through the 
Speak Out Program of the Human 
Rights Campaign Fund. 



Coming out is an ongoing process, one step at a time. Celebrate 
National Coming Out Day on October 11. Take your next step. 


National Coming Oil Day commemorate* ihc October It, 1987 Match on 
Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights Its goal is to increase the visibility 
of the 25 million lesbians and gays m the U S. who croas all ethnic, racial, 
geographic and economic lines. 

National Coming Out Day is a non-profit organization 
For mote information, or lo contribute: (505) 982-2558 
PO Bo* 15524. Sana Fe. New Mcstco 87506 

Paul for by Turn Wautm. James C Hormrl.Davtd Russell. Ednord Goodutin. 
St whorl EpMrtn, Rob Ekhberg. and graduaiei ofThr Eiprnrtuc